First Reading Jeremiah 1:4-10
Read in the CPDV: Jeremiah 1
Nativity of St. John the Baptist · Solemnity
Mass Readings for Saturday, June 24, 2028
On Saturday, June 24, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (Year C); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel at the Mass during the Day is Luke 1:57-66, 80.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
White
- Celebration
- Nativity of St. John the Baptist
- Season
- Ordinary Time · Week 11
- Rank
- Solemnity
- Sunday cycle
- Year C
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle II
Mass readings US
Vigil Mass
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5-6ab, 15ab and 17
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 71 (70 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading 1 Peter 1:8-12
8For though you have not seen him, you love him. In him also, though you do not see him, you now believe. And in believing, you shall exult with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
9returning with the goal of your faith, the salvation of souls.
10About this salvation, the prophets inquired and diligently searched, those who prophesied about the future grace in you,
11inquiring as to what type of condition was signified to them by the Spirit of Christ, when foretelling those sufferings that are in Christ, as well as the subsequent glories.
12To them, it was revealed that they were ministering, not for themselves, but for you those things which have now been announced to you through those who have preached the Gospel to you, through the Holy Spirit, who was sent down from heaven to the One upon whom the Angels desire to gaze.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of 1 Peter 1
Alleluia See John 1:7; Luke 1:17
Gospel Luke 1:5-17
5There was, in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zechariah, of the section of Abijah, and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
6Now they were both just before God, progressing in all of the commandments and the justifications of the Lord without blame.
7And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both had become advanced in years.
8Then it happened that, when he was exercising the priesthood before God, in the order of his section,
9according to the custom of the priesthood, the lot fell so that he would offer incense, entering into the temple of the Lord.
10And the entire multitude of the people was praying outside, at the hour of incense.
11Then there appeared to him an Angel of the Lord, standing at the right of the altar of incense.
12And upon seeing him, Zechariah was disturbed, and fear fell over him.
13But the Angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth shall bear a son to you. And you shall call his name John.
14And there will be joy and exultation for you, and many will rejoice in his nativity.
15For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
16And he will convert many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God.
17And he will go before him with the spirit and power of Elijah, so that he may turn the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the incredulous to the prudence of the just, so as to prepare for the Lord a completed people.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 1
Mass during the Day
First Reading Isaiah 49:1-6
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 49
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 139 (138 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading Acts 13:22-26
22And having removed him, he raised up for them king David. And offering testimony about him, he said, ‘I have found David, the son of Jesse, to be a man according to my own heart, who will accomplish all that I will.’
23From his offspring, according to the Promise, God has brought Jesus the Savior to Israel.
24John was preaching, before the face of his advent, a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
25Then, when John completed his course, he was saying: ‘I am not the one you consider me to be. For behold, one arrives after me, the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to loosen.’
26Noble brothers, sons of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, it is to you the Word of this salvation has been sent.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Acts 13
Alleluia See Luke 1:76
Read in the CPDV: Luke 1
Gospel Luke 1:57-66, 80
57Now the time for Elizabeth to give birth arrived, and she brought forth a son.
58And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy with her, and so they congratulated her.
59And it happened that, on the eighth day, they arrived to circumcise the boy, and they called him by his father’s name, Zechariah.
60And in response, his mother said: “Not so. Instead, he shall be called John.”
61And they said to her, “But there is no one among your relatives who is called by that name.”
62Then they made signs to his father, as to what he wanted him to be called.
63And requesting a writing tablet, he wrote, saying: “His name is John.” And they all wondered.
64Then, at once, his mouth was opened, and his tongue loosened, and he spoke, blessing God.
65And fear fell upon all of their neighbors. And all these words were made known throughout all the hill country of Judea.
66And all those who heard it stored it up in their heart, saying: “What do you think this boy will be?” And indeed, the hand of the Lord was with him.
- Some verses are not read.
80And the child grew, and he was strengthened in spirit. And he was in the wilderness, until the day of his manifestation to Israel.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 1
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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