--- title: "Mass Readings for May 25, 2028 (Thursday) · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/05/25/ description: "May 25, 2028: Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter — Ascension, Year C, Cycle II, white. Acts 18:1-8; Psalm 98; John 16:16-20. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter — Ascension · Weekday # Mass Readings *for Thursday, May 25, 2028* On Thursday, May 25, 2028, most dioceses in the United States keep Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter and celebrate the Ascension of the Lord on Sunday, May 28 (a few keep it on this Thursday); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is John 16:16-20. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color White - **Celebration**: Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter — Ascension - **Season**: Easter Time · Week 6 - **Rank**: Weekday - **Sunday cycle**: Year C - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II ## Mass readings (US) ### Weekday readings, in most US dioceses #### First Reading: Acts 18:1-8 - 1 After these things, having departed from Athens, he arrived at Corinth. - 2 And upon finding a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with Priscilla his wife, (because Claudius had ordered all Jews to depart from Rome,) he met with them. - 3 And because he was of the same trade, he lodged with them and was working. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.) - 4 And he was arguing in the synagogue on every Sabbath, introducing the name of the Lord Jesus. And he was persuading Jews and Greeks. - 5 And when Silas and Timothy had arrived from Macedonia, Paul stood firm in the Word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. - 6 But since they were contradicting him and blaspheming, he shook out his garments and said to them: “Your blood is on your own heads. I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles.” - 7 And moving from that place, he entered into the house of a certain man, named Titus the Just, a worshiper of God, whose house was adjoined to the synagogue. - 8 Now Crispus, a leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, with his entire house. And many of the Corinthians, upon hearing, believed and were baptized. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Acts 18](https://blessbible.app/bible/acts/18/) #### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 98 (97 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/97/) #### Gospel: John 16:16-20 - 16 A little while, and then you will not see me. And again a little while, and you will see me. For I am going to the Father.” - 17 Then some of his disciples said to one another: “What is this, that he is saying to us: ‘A little while, and you will not see me,’ and ‘Again a little while, and you will see me,’ and, ‘For I am going to the Father?’” - 18 And they said: “What is this, that he is saying, ‘A little while?’ We do not understand what he is saying.” - 19 But Jesus realized that they wanted to question him, and so he said to them: “Are you inquiring among yourselves about this, that I said: ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’ - 20 Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall mourn and weep, but the world will rejoice. And you shall be greatly saddened, yet your sorrow shall be turned into joy. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of John 16](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/16/) ### The Ascension of the Lord, where it is kept on this Thursday #### First Reading: Acts 1:1-11 - 1 Certainly, O Theophilus, I composed the first discourse about everything that Jesus began to do and to teach, - 2 instructing the Apostles, whom he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, even until the day on which he was taken up. - 3 He also presented himself alive to them, after his Passion, appearing to them throughout forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God with many elucidations. - 4 And dining with them, he instructed them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but that they should wait for the Promise of the Father, “about which you have heard,” he said, “from my own mouth. - 5 For John, indeed, baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now.” - 6 Therefore, those who had assembled together questioned him, saying, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom of Israel?” - 7 But he said to them: “It is not yours to know the times or the moments, which the Father has set by his own authority. - 8 But you shall receive the power of the Holy Spirit, passing over you, and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the ends of the earth.” - 9 And when he had said these things, while they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. - 10 And while they were watching him going up to heaven, behold, two men stood near them in white vestments. - 11 And they said: “Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall return in just the same way that you have seen him going up to heaven.” Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Acts 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/acts/1/) #### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 47 (46 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/46/) #### Second Reading: Ephesians 1:17-23 or Hebrews 9:24-28; 10:19-23 - 17 so that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give a spirit of wisdom and of revelation to you, in knowledge of him. - 18 May the eyes of your heart be illuminated, so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and the wealth of the glory of his inheritance with the saints, - 19 and the preeminent magnitude of his virtue toward us, toward we who believe in accord with the work of his powerful virtue, - 20 which he wrought in Christ, raising him from the dead and establishing him at his right hand in the heavens, - 21 above every principality and power and virtue and dominion, and above every name that is given, not only in this age, but even in the future age. - 22 And he has subjected all things under his feet, and he has made him the head over the entire Church, - 23 which is his body and which is the fullness of him who accomplishes everything in everyone. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Ephesians 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/ephesians/1/) [Hebrews 9](https://blessbible.app/bible/hebrews/9/) [Hebrews 10](https://blessbible.app/bible/hebrews/10/) #### Alleluia: Matthew 28:19a and 20b Read in the CPDV: [Matthew 28](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/28/) #### Gospel: Luke 24:46-53 - 46 And he said to them: “For so it is written, and so it was necessary, for the Christ to suffer and to rise up from the dead on the third day, - 47 and, in his name, for repentance and the remission of sins to be preached, among all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. - 48 And you are witnesses of these things. - 49 And I am sending the Promise of my Father upon you. But you must stay in the city, until such time as you are clothed with power from on high.” - 50 Then he led them out as far as Bethania. And lifting up his hands, he blessed them. - 51 And it happened that, while he was blessing them, he withdrew from them, and he was carried up into heaven. - 52 And worshiping, they returned to Jerusalem with great joy. - 53 And they were always in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Luke 24](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/24/) 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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