---
title: "Mass Readings for April 5, 2028 (Wednesday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/04/05/
description: "April 5, 2028: Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent, Year C, Cycle II, violet. Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Daniel 3; John 8:31-42. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Wednesday, April 5, 2028*

On Wednesday, April 5, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent (Cycle II); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is John 8:31-42.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

- **Celebration**: Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent
- **Season**: Lent · Week 5
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95

Read in the CPDV: [Daniel 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/daniel/3/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56

Read in the CPDV: [Daniel 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/daniel/3/)

### Verse before the Gospel: See Luke 8:15

Read in the CPDV: [Luke 8](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/8/)

### Gospel: John 8:31-42

- 31 Therefore, Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him: “If you will abide in my word, you will truly be my disciples.
- 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”
- 33 They answered him: “We are the offspring of Abraham, and we have never been a slave to anyone. How can you say, ‘You shall be set free?’”
- 34 Jesus answered them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
- 35 Now the slave does not abide in the house for eternity. Yet the Son does abide in eternity.
- 36 Therefore, if the Son has set you free, then you will truly be free.
- 37 I know that you are sons of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word has not taken hold in you.
- 38 I speak what I have seen with my Father. And you do what you have seen with your father.”
- 39 They responded and said to him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them: “If you are the sons of Abraham, then do the works of Abraham.
- 40 But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
- 41 You do the works of your father.” Therefore, they said to him: “We were not born out of fornication. We have one father: God.”
- 42 Then Jesus said to them: “If God were your father, certainly you would love me. For I proceeded and came from God. For I did not come from myself, but he sent me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of John 8](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/8/)

Computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

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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## Saint of the day

[St. Vincent Ferrer](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-vincent-ferrer/)

Priest · Remembered on April 5

Patron of builders

[Read about St. Vincent Ferrer](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-vincent-ferrer/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent).

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