--- title: "Mass Readings for May 4, 2028 (Thursday) · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/05/04/ description: "May 4, 2028: Thursday of the Third Week of Easter, Year C, Cycle II, white. Acts 8:26-40; Psalm 66:8-9, 16-17, 20; John 6:44-51. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- Thursday of the Third Week of Easter · Weekday # Mass Readings *for Thursday, May 4, 2028* On Thursday, May 4, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Third Week of Easter (Cycle II); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is John 6:44-51. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color White - **Celebration**: Thursday of the Third Week of Easter - **Season**: Easter Time · Week 3 - **Rank**: Weekday - **Sunday cycle**: Year C - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II ## Mass readings (US) ### First Reading: Acts 8:26-40 - 26 Now an Angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Rise up and go toward the south, to the way which descends from Jerusalem into Gaza, where there is a desert.” - 27 And rising up, he went. And behold, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, powerful under Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasures, had arrived in Jerusalem to worship. - 28 And while returning, he was sitting upon his chariot and reading from the prophet Isaiah. - 29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Draw near and join yourself to this chariot.” - 30 And Philip, hurrying, heard him reading from the prophet Isaiah, and he said, “Do you think that you understand what you are reading?” - 31 And he said, “But how can I, unless someone will have revealed it to me?” And he asked Philip to climb up and sit with him. - 32 Now the place in Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter. And like a lamb silent before his shearer, so he opened not his mouth. - 33 He endured his judgment with humility. Who of his generation shall describe how his life was taken away from the earth?” - 34 Then the eunuch responded to Philip, saying: “I beg you, about whom is the prophet saying this? About himself, or about someone else?” - 35 Then Philip, opening his mouth and beginning from this Scripture, evangelized Jesus to him. - 36 And while they were going along the way, they arrived at a certain water source. And the eunuch said: “There is water. What would prevent me from being baptized?” - 38 And he ordered the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch descended into the water. And he baptized him. - 39 And when they had ascended from the water, the Spirit of the Lord took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him anymore. Then he went on his way, rejoicing. - 40 Now Philip was found in Azotus. And continuing on, he evangelized all the cities, until he arrived in Caesarea. Catholic Public Domain Version · in the CPDV this is Acts 8:26–36, 38–40 Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Acts 8](https://blessbible.app/bible/acts/8/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 66:8-9, 16-17, 20 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 66 (65 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/65/) ### Alleluia: John 6:51 Read in the CPDV: [John 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/6/) ### Gospel: John 6:44-51 - 44 No one is able to come to me, unless the Father, who has sent me, has drawn him. And I will raise him up on the last day. - 45 It has been written in the Prophets: ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has listened and learned from the Father comes to me. - 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God; this one has seen the Father. - 47 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me has eternal life. - 48 I am the bread of life. - 49 Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and they died. - 50 This is the bread which descends from heaven, so that if anyone will eat from it, he may not die. - 51 I am the living bread, who descended from heaven. - 52 If anyone eats from this bread, he shall live in eternity. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.” Catholic Public Domain Version · in the CPDV this is John 6:44–52 Read in the CPDV: [The whole of John 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/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. Spotted a wrong date, color or citation? [Report an error](https://blessbible.app/support/#report) and we’ll fix it in the app and here. ## Saint of the day [St. Florian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-florian/) Martyr · Remembered on May 4 Patron of firefighters [Read about St. Florian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-florian/) The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Thursday of the Third Week of Easter). 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