---
title: "Mass Readings for July 21, 2028 (Friday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/07/21/
description: "July 21, 2028: Friday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C, Cycle II, green. Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8; Isaiah 38; Matthew 12:1-8. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Friday, July 21, 2028*

On Friday, July 21, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle II); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Matthew 12:1-8.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Green

- **Celebration**: Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
- **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 15
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8

Read in the CPDV: [Isaiah 38](https://blessbible.app/bible/isaiah/38/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Isaiah 38:10, 11, 12abcd, 16

Read in the CPDV: [Isaiah 38](https://blessbible.app/bible/isaiah/38/)

### Alleluia: John 10:27

Read in the CPDV: [John 10](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/10/)

### Gospel: Matthew 12:1-8

- 1 At that time, Jesus went out through the ripe grain on the Sabbath. And his disciples, being hungry, began to separate the grain and to eat.
- 2 Then the Pharisees, seeing this, said to him, “Behold, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbaths.”
- 3 But he said to them: “Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him:
- 4 how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
- 5 Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbaths the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath, and they are without guilt?
- 6 But I say to you, that something greater than the temple is here.
- 7 And if you knew what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would never have condemned the innocent.
- 8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 12](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/12/)

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. Lawrence of Brindisi](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lawrence-of-brindisi/)

Priest and Doctor of the Church · Remembered on July 21

[Read about St. Lawrence of Brindisi](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lawrence-of-brindisi/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time).

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