First Reading Joshua 5:9a, 10-12
Read in the CPDV: Joshua 5
Fourth Sunday of Lent
Mass Readings for Sunday, March 26, 2028
On Sunday, March 26, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year C); the liturgical color is rose (or violet). The Gospel is Luke 15:1-3, 11-32.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Rose (or violet)
- Celebration
- Fourth Sunday of Lent
- Season
- Lent · Week 4
- Rank
- Sunday
- Sunday cycle
- Year C
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle II
Mass readings US
Laetare Sunday: rose vestments may be worn; violet is also correct.
Year C readings
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 34 (33 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading 2 Corinthians 5:17-21
17So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.
18But all is of God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
19For certainly God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not charging them with their sins. And he has placed in us the Word of reconciliation.
20Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God.
21For God made him who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the justice of God in him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of 2 Corinthians 5
Verse before the Gospel Luke 15:18
Read in the CPDV: Luke 15
Gospel Luke 15:1-3, 11-32
1Now tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him, so that they might listen to him.
2And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This one accepts sinners and eats with them.”
3And he told this parable to them, saying:
- Some verses are not read.
11And he said: “A certain man had two sons.
12And the younger of them said to the father, ‘Father, give me the portion of your estate which would go to me.’ And he divided the estate between them.
13And after not many days, the younger son, gathering it all together, set out on a long journey to a distant region. And there, he dissipated his substance, living in luxury.
14And after he had consumed it all, a great famine occurred in that region, and he began to be in need.
15And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that region. And he sent him to his farm, in order to feed the swine.
16And he wanted to fill his belly with the scraps that the swine ate. But no one would give it to him.
17And returning to his senses, he said: ‘How many hired hands in my father’s house have abundant bread, while I perish here in famine!
18I shall rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
19I am not worthy to be called your son. Make me one of your hired hands.’
20And rising up, he went to his father. But while he was still at a distance, his father saw him, and he was moved with compassion, and running to him, he fell upon his neck and kissed him.
21And the son said to him: ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. Now I am not worthy to be called your son.’
22But the father said to his servants: ‘Quickly! Bring out the best robe, and clothe him with it. And put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet.
23And bring the fatted calf here, and kill it. And let us eat and hold a feast.
24For this son of mine was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to feast.
25But his elder son was in the field. And when he returned and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
26And he called one of the servants, and he questioned him as to what these things meant.
27And he said to him: ‘Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safely.’
28Then he became indignant, and he was unwilling to enter. Therefore, his father, going out, began to plead with him.
29And in response, he said to his father: ‘Behold, I have been serving you for so many years. And I have never transgressed your commandment. And yet, you have never given me even a young goat, so that I might feast with my friends.
30Yet after this son of yours returned, who has devoured his substance with loose women, you have killed the fatted calf for him.’
31But he said to him: ‘Son, you are with me always, and all that I have is yours.
32But it was necessary to feast and to rejoice. For this brother of yours was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.’”
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 15
Year A readings (may be used in any year)
First Reading 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a
Read in the CPDV: 1 Samuel 16
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 23 (22 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading Ephesians 5:8-14
8For you were darkness, in times past, but now you are light, in the Lord. So then, walk as sons of the light.
9For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth,
10affirming what is well-pleasing to God.
11And so, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead, refute them.
12For the things that are done by them in secret are shameful, even to mention.
13But all things that are disputed are made manifest by the light. For all that is made manifest is light.
14Because of this, it is said: “You who are sleeping: awaken, and rise up from the dead, and so shall the Christ enlighten you.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Ephesians 5
Verse before the Gospel John 8:12
Read in the CPDV: John 8
Gospel John 9:1-41
1And Jesus, while passing by, saw a man blind from birth.
2And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”
3Jesus responded: “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God would be made manifest in him.
4I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day: the night is coming, when no one is able to work.
5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6When he had said these things, he spat on the ground, and he made clay from the spittle, and he smeared the clay over his eyes.
7And he said to him: “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated as: one who has been sent). Therefore, he went away and washed, and he returned, seeing.
8And so the bystanders and those who had seen him before, when he was a beggar, said, “Is this not the one who was sitting and begging?” Some said, “This is he.”
9But others said, “Certainly not, but he is similar to him.” Yet truly, he himself said, “I am he.”
10Therefore, they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
11He responded: “That man who is called Jesus made clay, and he anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ And I went, and I washed, and I see.”
12And they said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
13They brought the one who had been blind to the Pharisees.
14Now it was the Sabbath, when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
15Therefore, again the Pharisees questioned him as to how he had seen. And he said to them, “He placed clay over my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
16And so certain Pharisees said: “This man, who does not keep the Sabbath, is not from God.” But others said, “How could a sinful man accomplish these signs?” And there was a schism among them.
17Therefore, they spoke again to the blind man, “What do you say about him who opened your eyes?” Then he said, “He is a Prophet.”
18Therefore, the Jews did not believe, about him, that he had been blind and had seen, until they called the parents of him who had seen.
19And they questioned them, saying: “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how is it that he now sees?”
20His parents responded to them and said: “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
21But how it is that he now sees, we do not know. And who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough. Let him speak for himself.”
22His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already conspired, so that if anyone were to confess him to be the Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.
23It was for this reason that his parents said: “He is old enough. Ask him.”
24Therefore, they again called the man who had been blind, and they said to him: “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
25And so he said to them: “If he is a sinner, I do not know it. One thing I do know, that although I was blind, now I see.”
26Then they said to him: “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27He answered them: “I have already told you, and you heard it. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”
28Therefore, they cursed him and said: “You be his disciple. But we are disciples of Moses.
29We know that God spoke to Moses. But this man, we do not know where he is from.”
30The man responded and said to them: “Now in this is a wonder: that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.
31And we know that God does not hear sinners. But if anyone is a worshipper of God and does his will, then he heeds him.
32From ancient times, it has not been heard that anyone has opened the eyes of someone born blind.
33Unless this man were of God, he would not be able to do any such thing.”
34They responded and said to him, “You were born entirely in sins, and you would teach us?” And they cast him out.
35Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
36He responded and said, “Who is he, Lord, so that I may believe in him?”
37And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you.”
38And he said, “I believe, Lord.” And falling prostrate, he worshipped him.
39And Jesus said, “I came into this world in judgment, so that those who do not see, may see; and so that those who see, may become blind.”
40And certain Pharisees, who were with him, heard this, and they said to him, “Are we also blind?”
41Jesus said to them: “If you were blind, you would not have sin. Yet now you say, ‘We see.’ So your sin persists.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of John 9
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In US parishes the readings are proclaimed from the NABRE; the text shown here is the Catholic Public Domain Version.
Old Testament readings and the psalm are listed with a link to their chapter: the US Lectionary numbers some of their verses differently from the CPDV, so their text is not printed here. Psalm citations keep the Lectionary’s Hebrew numbering; the CPDV numbers the Psalms as the Vulgate does.
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