First Reading Wisdom 18:6-9
Read in the CPDV: Wisdom 18
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings for Sunday, August 13, 2028
On Sunday, August 13, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Luke 12:32-48.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Green
- Celebration
- Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Season
- Ordinary Time · Week 19
- Rank
- Sunday
- Sunday cycle
- Year C
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle II
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 33 (32 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19
or Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-12
1Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not apparent.
2For this reason, the ancients were given testimony.
- Some verses are not read.
8By faith, the one called Abraham obeyed, going out to the place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
9By faith, he stayed in the Land of the Promise as if in a foreign land, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise.
10For he was awaiting a city having firm foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
11By faith also, Sarah herself, being barren, received the ability to conceive offspring, even though she was past that age in life. For she believed him to be faithful, who had promised.
12Because of this, there were also born, from one who himself was as if dead, a multitude like the stars of heaven, who are, like the sand of the seashore, innumerable.
13All of these passed away, adhering to faith, not having received the promises, yet beholding them from afar and saluting them, and confessing themselves to be sojourners and guests upon the earth.
14For those who speak in this way are themselves indicating that they seek a homeland.
15And if, indeed, they had been mindful of the very place from which they departed, they certainly would have returned in time.
16But now they hunger for a better place, that is, Heaven. For this reason, God is not ashamed to be called their God. For he has prepared a city for them.
17By faith, Abraham, when he was tested, offered Isaac, so that he who had received the promises was offering up his only son.
18To him, it was said, “Through Isaac, shall your offspring be summoned,”
19indicating that God is even able to raise up from the dead. And thus, he also established him as a parable.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Hebrews 11
Gospel Luke 12:32-48
or Luke 12:35-40
32Do not be afraid, little flock; for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom.
33Sell what you possess, and give alms. Make for yourselves purses that will not wear out, a treasure that will not fall short, in heaven, where no thief approaches, and no moth corrupts.
34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35Let your waists be girded, and let lamps be burning in your hands.
36And let you yourselves be like men awaiting their lord, when he will return from the wedding; so that, when he arrives and knocks, they may open to him promptly.
37Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he returns, will find being vigilant. Amen I say to you, that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, while he, continuing on, will minister to them.
38And if he will return in the second watch, or if in the third watch, and if he will find them to be so: then blessed are those servants.
39But know this: that if the father of the family knew at what hour the thief would arrive, he would certainly stand watch, and he would not permit his house to be broken into.
40You also must be prepared. For the Son of man will return at an hour that you will not realize.”
41Then Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or also to everyone?”
42So the Lord said: “Who do you think is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his Lord has appointed over his family, in order to give them their measure of wheat in due time?
43Blessed is that servant if, when his Lord will return, he will find him acting in this manner.
44Truly I say to you, that he will appoint him over all that he possesses.
45But if that servant will have said in his heart, ‘My Lord has made a delay in his return,’ and if he has begun to strike the men and women servants, and to eat and drink, and to be inebriated,
46then the Lord of that servant will return on a day which he hoped not, and at an hour which he knew not. And he will separate him, and he will place his portion with that of the unfaithful.
47And that servant, who knew the will of his Lord, and who did not prepare and did not act according to his will, will be beaten many times over.
48Yet he who did not know, and who acted in a way that deserves a beating, will be beaten fewer times. So then, of all to whom much has been given, much will be required. And of those to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be asked.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 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
Martyrs · Remembered on August 13
The day’s Mass celebrates the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.