---
title: "Mass Readings for May 23, 2028 (Tuesday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/05/23/
description: "May 23, 2028: Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter, Year C, Cycle II, white. Acts 16:22-34; Psalm 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8; John 16:5-11."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Tuesday, May 23, 2028*

On Tuesday, May 23, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter (Cycle II); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is John 16:5-11.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

White

- **Celebration**: Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter
- **Season**: Easter Time · Week 6
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Acts 16:22-34

- 22 And the people rushed together against them. And the magistrates, tearing their tunics, ordered them to be beaten with staffs.
- 23 And when they had inflicted many scourges on them, they cast them into prison, instructing the guard to watch them diligently.
- 24 And since he had received this kind of order, he cast them into the interior prison cell, and he restricted their feet with stocks.
- 25 Then, in the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were praying and praising God. And those who were also in custody were listening to them.
- 26 Yet truly, there was a sudden earthquake, so great that the foundations of the prison were moved. And immediately all the doors were opened, and the bindings of everyone were released.
- 27 Then the prison guard, having been jarred awake, and seeing the doors of the prison open, drew his sword and intended to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had fled.
- 28 But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying: “Do no harm to yourself, for we are all here!”
- 29 Then calling for a light, he entered. And trembling, he fell before the feet of Paul and Silas.
- 30 And bringing them outside, he said, “Sirs, what must I do, so that I may be saved?”
- 31 So they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and then you will be saved, with your household.”
- 32 And they spoke the Word of the Lord to him, along with all those who were in his house.
- 33 And he, taking them in the same hour of the night, washed their scourges. And he was baptized, and next his entire household.
- 34 And when he had brought them into his own house, he set a table for them. And he was joyous, with his entire household, believing in God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Acts 16](https://blessbible.app/bible/acts/16/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 138 (137 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/137/)

### Alleluia: See John 16:7, 13

Read in the CPDV: [John 16](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/16/)

### Gospel: John 16:5-11

The text isn’t printed here: Bless can’t yet confirm that these verses line up exactly between the US Lectionary and the CPDV.

Read in the CPDV: [John 16](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/16/)

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. John Baptist de Rossi](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-baptist-de-rossi/)

Priest · Remembered on May 23

[Read about St. John Baptist de Rossi](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-baptist-de-rossi/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter).

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