--- title: "Mass Readings for April 16, 2028: Easter Sunday · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/04/16/ description: "April 16, 2028: The Resurrection of the Lord, Year C, white. Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Psalm 118; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-9. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- The Resurrection of the Lord · Solemnity # Mass Readings *for Sunday, April 16, 2028* On Sunday, April 16, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the Resurrection of the Lord (Year C); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is John 20:1-9. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color White - **Celebration**: The Resurrection of the Lord - **Season**: Easter Time · Week 1 - **Rank**: Solemnity - **Sunday cycle**: Year C - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II ## Mass readings (US) ### First Reading: Acts 10:34a, 37-43 - 34 Then, Peter, opening his mouth, said: “I have concluded in truth that God is not a respecter of persons. - 37 You know that the Word has been made known throughout all Judea. For beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached, - 38 Jesus of Nazareth, whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power, traveled around doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil. For God was with him. - 39 And we are witnesses of all that he did in the region of Judea and in Jerusalem, he whom they killed by hanging him on a tree. - 40 God raised him up on the third day and permitted him to be made manifest, - 41 not to all the people, but to the witnesses preordained by God, to those of us who ate and drank with him after he rose again from the dead. - 42 And he instructed us to preach to the people, and to testify that he is the One who was appointed by God to be the judge of the living and of the dead. - 43 To him all the Prophets offer testimony that through his name all who believe in him receive the remission of sins.” Catholic Public Domain Version · part-verses shown as whole verses Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Acts 10](https://blessbible.app/bible/acts/10/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 118 (117 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/117/) ### Second Reading: Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8 - 1 Therefore, if you have risen together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. - 2 Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth. - 3 For you have died, and so your life is hidden with Christ in God. - 4 When Christ, your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Colossians 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/colossians/3/) [1 Corinthians 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-corinthians/5/) ### Alleluia: Cf. 1 Corinthians 5:7 Read in the CPDV: [1 Corinthians 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-corinthians/5/) ### Gospel: John 20:1-9 - 1 Then on the first Sabbath, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and she saw that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb. - 2 Therefore, she ran and went to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and she said to them, “They have taken the Lord away from the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” - 3 Therefore, Peter departed with the other disciple, and they went to the tomb. - 4 Now they both ran together, but the other disciple ran more quickly, ahead of Peter, and so he arrived at the tomb first. - 5 And when he bowed down, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not yet enter. - 6 Then Simon Peter arrived, following him, and he entered the tomb, and he saw the linen cloths lying there, - 7 and the separate cloth which had been over his head, not placed with the linen cloths, but in a separate place, wrapped up by itself. - 8 Then the other disciple, who had arrived first at the tomb, also entered. And he saw and believed. - 9 For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that it was necessary for him to rise again from the dead. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of John 20](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/20/) 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. Spotted a wrong date, color or citation? 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