St. Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church · Memorial

Mass Readings for Tuesday, May 2, 2028

On Tuesday, May 2, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Cycle II); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is John 6:30-35.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

White

Celebration: St. Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Season: Easter Time · Week 3
Rank: Memorial
Sunday cycle: Year C
Weekday cycle: Cycle II

Mass readings US

First Reading Acts 7:51—8:1a

51Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you ever resist the Holy Spirit. Just as your fathers did, so also do you do.
52Which of the Prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they killed those who foretold the advent of the Just One. And you have now become the betrayers and murderers of him.
53You received the law by the actions of Angels, and yet you have not kept it.”
54Then, upon hearing these things, they were deeply wounded in their hearts, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
55But he, being filled with the Holy Spirit, and gazing intently toward heaven, saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.”
56Then they, crying out with a loud voice, blocked their ears and, with one accord, rushed violently toward him.
57And driving him out, beyond the city, they stoned him. And witnesses placed their garments beside the feet of a youth, who was called Saul.
58And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
59Then, having been brought to his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his murder.

Catholic Public Domain Version · in the CPDV this is Acts 7:51–59 · part-verses shown as whole verses

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Acts 7

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 31:3cd-4, 6 and 7b and 8a, 17 and 21ab

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 31 (30 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia John 6:35ab

Read in the CPDV: John 6

Gospel John 6:30-35

30And so they said to him: “Then what sign will you do, so that we may see it and believe in you? What will you work?
31Our fathers ate manna in the desert, just as it has been written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32Therefore, Jesus said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
33For the bread of God is he who descends from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34And so they said to him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”
35Then Jesus said to them: “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of John 6

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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