---
title: "Mass Readings for April 7, 2028 (Friday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/04/07/
description: "April 7, 2028: Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent, Year C, Cycle II, violet. Jeremiah 20:10-13; Psalm 18; John 10:31-42. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Friday, April 7, 2028*

On Friday, April 7, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent (Cycle II); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is John 10:31-42.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

- **Celebration**: Friday 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: Jeremiah 20:10-13

Read in the CPDV: [Jeremiah 20](https://blessbible.app/bible/jeremiah/20/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 5-6, 7

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 18 (17 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/17/)

### Verse before the Gospel: See John 6:63c, 68c

Read in the CPDV: [John 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/6/)

### Gospel: John 10:31-42

- 31 Therefore, the Jews took up stones, in order to stone him.
- 32 Jesus answered them: “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
- 33 The Jews answered him: “We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy and because, though you are a man, you make yourself God.”
- 34 Jesus responded to them: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said: you are gods?’
- 35 If he called those to whom the word of God was given gods, and Scripture cannot be broken,
- 36 why do you say, about him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You have blasphemed,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’
- 37 If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe in me.
- 38 But if I do them, even if you are not willing to believe in me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”
- 39 Therefore, they sought to apprehend him, but he escaped from their hands.
- 40 And he went again across the Jordan, to that place where John first was baptizing. And he lodged there.
- 41 And many went out to him. And they were saying: “Indeed, John accomplished no signs.
- 42 But all things whatsoever that John said about this man were true.” And many believed in him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of John 10](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/10/)

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. John Baptist de la Salle](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-baptist-de-la-salle/)

Priest · Feast day April 7

Patron of teachers

[Read about St. John Baptist de la Salle](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-baptist-de-la-salle/)

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

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