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Most Sacred Heart of Jesus · Solemnity

Mass Readings for Friday, June 23, 2028

On Friday, June 23, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Year C); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Luke 15:3-7.

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The liturgical day

Liturgical color

White

Celebration
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Season
Ordinary Time · Week 11
Rank
Solemnity
Sunday cycle
Year C
Weekday cycle
Cycle II

Mass readings US

First Reading Ezekiel 34:11-16

Read in the CPDV: Ezekiel 34

Second Reading Romans 5:5b-11

  • 5but hope is not unfounded, because the love of God is poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

  • 6Yet why did Christ, while we were still infirm, at the proper time, suffer death for the impious?

  • 7Now someone might barely be willing to die for the sake of justice, for example, perhaps someone might dare to die for the sake of a good man.

  • 8But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

  • 9Christ died for us. Therefore, having been justified now by his blood, all the more so shall we be saved from wrath through him.

  • 10For if we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, while we were still enemies, all the more so, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

  • 11And not only that, but we also glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Catholic Public Domain Version · part-verses shown as whole verses

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Romans 5

Gospel Luke 15:3-7

  • 3And he told this parable to them, saying:

  • 4“What man among you, who has one hundred sheep, and if he will have lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the one whom he had lost, until he finds it?

  • 5And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

  • 6And returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them: ‘Congratulate me! For I have found my sheep, which had been lost.’

  • 7I say to you, that there will be so much more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, than over the ninety-nine just, who do not need to repent.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 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. Joseph Cafasso

Priest · Remembered on June 23

Patron of prisoners and the condemned

Read about St. Joseph Cafasso

The day’s Mass celebrates the solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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