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title: "Mass Readings for August 3, 2028 (Thursday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/08/03/
description: "August 3, 2028: Thursday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C, Cycle II, green. Jeremiah 18:1-6; Psalm 146; Matthew 13:47-53. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Thursday, August 3, 2028*

On Thursday, August 3, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle II); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Matthew 13:47-53.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Green

- **Celebration**: Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
- **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 17
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Jeremiah 18:1-6

Read in the CPDV: [Jeremiah 18](https://blessbible.app/bible/jeremiah/18/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 146:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 146 (145 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/145/)

### Alleluia: Acts 16:14

Read in the CPDV: [Acts 16](https://blessbible.app/bible/acts/16/)

### Gospel: Matthew 13:47-53

- 47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the sea, which gathers together all kinds of fish.
- 48 When it has been filled, drawing it out and sitting beside the shore, they selected the good into vessels, but the bad they threw away.
- 49 So shall it be at the consummation of the age. The Angels shall go forth and separate the bad from the midst of the just.
- 50 And they shall cast them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- 51 Have you understood all these things?” They say to him, “Yes.”
- 52 He said to them, “Therefore, every scribe well-taught about the kingdom of heaven, is like a man, the father of a family, who offers from his storehouse both the new and the old.”
- 53 And it happened that, when Jesus had completed these parables, he went away from there.

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. Lydia Purpuraria](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lydia-purpuraria/)

Disciple · Remembered on August 3

[Read about St. Lydia Purpuraria](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lydia-purpuraria/)

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

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