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title: "Mass Readings for August 9, 2028 (Wednesday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/08/09/
description: "August 9, 2028: Wednesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C, Cycle II, green. Jeremiah 31:1-7; Jeremiah 31; Matthew 15:21-28. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Wednesday, August 9, 2028*

On Wednesday, August 9, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle II); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Matthew 15:21-28.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Green

- **Celebration**: Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
- **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 18
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Jeremiah 31:1-7

Read in the CPDV: [Jeremiah 31](https://blessbible.app/bible/jeremiah/31/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Jeremiah 31:10, 11-12ab, 13

Read in the CPDV: [Jeremiah 31](https://blessbible.app/bible/jeremiah/31/)

### Alleluia: Luke 7:16

Read in the CPDV: [Luke 7](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/7/)

### Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28

- 21 And departing from there, Jesus withdrew into the areas of Tyre and Sidon.
- 22 And behold, a woman of Canaan, going out from those parts, cried out, saying to him: “Take pity on me, Lord, Son of David. My daughter is badly afflicted by a demon.”
- 23 He did not say a word to her. And his disciples, drawing near, petitioned him, saying: “Dismiss her, for she is crying out after us.”
- 24 And responding, he said, “I was not sent except to the sheep who have fallen away from the house of Israel.”
- 25 But she approached and adored him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
- 26 And responding, he said, “It is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.”
- 27 But she said, “Yes, Lord, but the young dogs also eat from the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.”
- 28 Then Jesus, responding, said to her: “O woman, great is your faith. Let it be done for you just as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 15](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/15/)

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. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-benedicta-of-the-cross/)

Virgin and Martyr · Remembered on August 9

Patron of Europe and converts

[Read about St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-benedicta-of-the-cross/)

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

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