---
title: "Mass Readings for August 1, 2028: St. Alphonsus Liguori"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/08/01/
description: "August 1, 2028: St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, Year C, Cycle II, white. Jeremiah 14:17-22; Matthew 13:36-43. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church · Memorial

# Mass Readings *for Tuesday, August 1, 2028*

On Tuesday, August 1, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Cycle II); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Matthew 13:36-43.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

White

- **Celebration**: St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
- **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 17
- **Rank**: Memorial
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Jeremiah 14:17-22

Read in the CPDV: [Jeremiah 14](https://blessbible.app/bible/jeremiah/14/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 79:8, 9, 11 and 13

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 79 (78 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/78/)

### Gospel: Matthew 13:36-43

- 36 Then, dismissing the crowds, he went into the house. And his disciples drew near to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
- 37 Responding, he said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of man.
- 38 Now the field is the world. And the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom. But the weeds are the sons of wickedness.
- 39 So the enemy who sowed them is the devil. And truly, the harvest is the consummation of the age; while the reapers are the Angels.
- 40 Therefore, just as weeds are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the consummation of the age.
- 41 The Son of man shall send out his Angels, and they shall gather from his kingdom all who lead astray and those who work iniquity.
- 42 And he shall cast them into the furnace of fire, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- 43 Then the just ones shall shine like the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 13](https://blessbible.app/bible/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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## Saint of the day

[St. Alphonsus Liguori](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-alphonsus-liguori/)

Bishop and Doctor of the Church · Feast day August 1

[Read about St. Alphonsus Liguori](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-alphonsus-liguori/)

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