On Sunday, May 28, 2028, most dioceses in the United States celebrate the Ascension of the Lord (Year C); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Luke 24:46-53.
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The liturgical day
Liturgical color
White
Celebration
Seventh Sunday of Easter — Ascension
Season
Easter Time · Week 7
Rank
Solemnity
Sunday cycle
Year C
Weekday cycle
Cycle II
Mass readings US
The Ascension of the Lord, in most US dioceses
First ReadingActs 1:1-11
1Certainly, O Theophilus, I composed the first discourse about everything that Jesus began to do and to teach,
2instructing the Apostles, whom he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, even until the day on which he was taken up.
3He 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.
4And 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.
5For John, indeed, baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now.”
6Therefore, those who had assembled together questioned him, saying, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom of Israel?”
7But he said to them: “It is not yours to know the times or the moments, which the Father has set by his own authority.
8But 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.”
9And when he had said these things, while they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight.
10And while they were watching him going up to heaven, behold, two men stood near them in white vestments.
11And 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.”
17so 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.
18May 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,
19and the preeminent magnitude of his virtue toward us, toward we who believe in accord with the work of his powerful virtue,
20which he wrought in Christ, raising him from the dead and establishing him at his right hand in the heavens,
21above 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.
22And he has subjected all things under his feet, and he has made him the head over the entire Church,
23which is his body and which is the fullness of him who accomplishes everything in everyone.
Seventh Sunday of Easter, where the Ascension was kept on Thursday
First ReadingActs 7:55-60
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 7:55–59
12“Behold, I am approaching quickly! And my repayment is with me, to render to each one according to his works.
13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
14Blessed are those who wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb. So may they have a right to the tree of life; so may they enter through the gates into the City.
Some verses are not read.
16“I, Jesus, have sent my Angel, to testify to these things for you among the Churches. I am the Root and the Origin of David, the bright morning Star.”
17And the Spirit and the Bride say: “Draw near.” And whoever hears, let him say: “Draw near.” And whoever thirsts, let him draw near. And whoever is willing, let him accept the water of life, freely.
Some verses are not read.
20He who offers testimony to these things, says: “Even now, I am approaching quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
20But I am not praying for them only, but also for those who through their word shall believe in me.
21So may they all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me, and I am in you, so also may they be one in us: so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
22And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, so that they may be one, just as we also are one.
23I am in them, and you are in me. So may they be perfected as one. And may the world know that you have sent me and that you have loved them, just as you have also loved me.
24Father, I will that where I am, those whom you have given to me may also be with me, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me. For you loved me before the founding of the world.
25Father most just, the world has not known you. But I have known you. And these have known that you sent me.
26And I have made known your name to them, and I will make it known, so that the love in which you have loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.”
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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