First Reading Isaiah 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 61
Holy Thursday — Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper · Paschal Triduum
Mass Readings for Thursday, April 13, 2028
On Thursday, April 13, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates Holy Thursday, the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Year C); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel at the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper is John 13:1-15.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
White
- Celebration
- Holy Thursday — Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
- Season
- The Paschal Triduum
- Rank
- Paschal Triduum
- Sunday cycle
- Year C
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle II
Mass readings US
Chrism Mass
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 89:21-22, 25 and 27
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 89 (88 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading Revelation 1:5-8
5and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the leader over the kings of the earth, who has loved us and has washed us from our sins with his blood,
6and who has made us into a kingdom and into priests for God and for his Father. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
7Behold, he arrives with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, even those who pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth shall lament for themselves over him. Even so. Amen.
8“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Revelation 1
Verse before the Gospel Isaiah 61:1 (cited in Luke 4:18)
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 61
Gospel Luke 4:16-21
16And he went to Nazareth, where he had been raised. And he entered into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the Sabbath day. And he rose up to read.
17And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. And as he unrolled the book, he found the place where it was written:
18“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because of this, he has anointed me. He has sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart,
19to preach forgiveness to captives and sight to the blind, to release the broken into forgiveness, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of retribution.”
20And when he had rolled up the book, he returned it to the minister, and he sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.
21Then he began to say to them, “On this day, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 4
Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
First Reading Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14
Read in the CPDV: Exodus 12
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 116:10–19 (115 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
23For I have received from the Lord what I have also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the same night that he was handed over, took bread,
24and giving thanks, he broke it, and said: “Take and eat. This is my body, which shall be given up for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
25Similarly also, the cup, after he had eaten supper, saying: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
26For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord, until he returns.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of 1 Corinthians 11
Verse before the Gospel John 13:34
Read in the CPDV: John 13
Gospel John 13:1-15
1Before the feast day of the Passover, Jesus knew that the hour was approaching when he would pass from this world to the Father. And since he had always loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
2And when the meal had taken place, when the devil had now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,
3knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he came from God and was going to God,
4he rose up from the meal, and he set aside his vestments, and when he had received a towel, he wrapped it around himself.
5Next he put water into a shallow bowl, and he began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel with which he was wrapped.
6And then he came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to him, “Lord, would you wash my feet?”
7Jesus responded and said to him: “What I am doing, you do not now understand. But you shall understand it afterward.”
8Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you will have no place with me.”
9Simon Peter said to him, “Then Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!”
10Jesus said to him: “He who is washed need only wash his feet, and then he will be entirely clean. And you are clean, but not all.”
11For he knew which one would betray him. For this reason, he said, “You are not all clean.”
12And so, after he washed their feet and received his vestments, when he had sat down at table again, he said to them: “Do you know what I have done for you?
13You call me Teacher and Lord, and you speak well: for so I am.
14Therefore, if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash the feet of one another.
15For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done for you, so also should you do.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of John 13
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
Pope and Martyr · Remembered on April 13
The day’s Mass celebrates Holy Thursday, the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper.