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Sts. Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary · Memorial

Mass Readings for Wednesday, July 26, 2028

On Wednesday, July 26, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Cycle II); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Matthew 13:1-9.

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The liturgical day

Liturgical color

White

Celebration
Sts. Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Season
Ordinary Time · Week 16
Rank
Memorial
Sunday cycle
Year C
Weekday cycle
Cycle II

Mass readings US

First Reading Jeremiah 1:1, 4-10

Read in the CPDV: Jeremiah 1

Gospel Matthew 13:1-9

  • 1In that day, Jesus, departing from the house, sat down beside the sea.

  • 2And such great crowds were gathered to him that he climbed into a boat and he sat down. And the entire multitude stood on the shore.

  • 3And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow seed.

  • 4And while he was sowing, some fell beside the road, and the birds of the air came and ate it.

  • 5Then others fell in a rocky place, where they did not have much soil. And they sprung up promptly, because they had no depth of soil.

  • 6But when the sun rose up, they were scorched, and because they had no roots, they withered.

  • 7Still others fell among thorns, and the thorns increased and suffocated them.

  • 8Yet some others fell upon good soil, and they produced fruit: some one hundred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold.

  • 9Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Matthew 13

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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