Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter · Weekday

Mass Readings for Wednesday, May 17, 2028

On Wednesday, May 17, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter (Cycle II); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is John 15:1-8.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

White

Celebration: Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Season: Easter Time · Week 5
Rank: Weekday
Sunday cycle: Year C
Weekday cycle: Cycle II

Mass readings US

First Reading Acts 15:1-6

1And certain ones, descending from Judea, were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
2Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas made no small uprising against them, they decided that Paul and Barnabas, and some from the opposing side, should go up to the Apostles and priests in Jerusalem concerning this question.
3Therefore, being led by the church, they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles. And they caused great joy among all the brothers.
4And when they had arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the Apostles and the elders, reporting what great things God had done with them.
5But some from the sect of the Pharisees, those who were believers, rose up saying, “It is necessary for them to be circumcised and to be instructed to keep the Law of Moses.”
6And the Apostles and elders came together to take care of this matter.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Acts 15

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 122 (121 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia John 15:4a, 5b

Read in the CPDV: John 15

Gospel John 15:1-8

1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
2Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he will take away. And each one that does bear fruit, he will cleanse, so that it may bring forth more fruit.
3You are clean now, because of the word that I have spoken to you.
4Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so also are you unable, unless you abide in me.
5I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without me, you are able to do nothing.
6If anyone does not abide in me, he will be cast away, like a branch, and he will wither, and they will gather him and cast him into the fire, and he burns.
7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, then you may ask for whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
8In this, my Father is glorified: that you should bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of John 15

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. Paschal Baylon

Religious · Remembered on May 17

Patron of eucharistic devotion

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