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title: "Mass Readings for August 14, 2028: St. Maximilian Kolbe"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/08/14/
description: "August 14, 2028: St. Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr, Year C, Cycle II, red. Ezekiel 1:2-5, 24-28c; Psalm 148; Matthew 17:22-27. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

St. Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr · Memorial

# Mass Readings *for Monday, August 14, 2028*

On Monday, August 14, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr (Cycle II); the liturgical color is red. The Gospel is Matthew 17:22-27.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Red

- **Celebration**: St. Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr
- **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 19
- **Rank**: Memorial
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Ezekiel 1:2-5, 24-28c

Read in the CPDV: [Ezekiel 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/ezekiel/1/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 148](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/148/)

### Alleluia: See 2 Thessalonians 2:14

Read in the CPDV: [2 Thessalonians 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/2-thessalonians/2/)

### Gospel: Matthew 17:22-27

- 21 And when they were conversing together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: “The Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
- 22 And they will kill him, but he will rise again on the third day.” And they were extremely saddened.
- 23 And when they had arrived at Capernaum, those who collected the half shekel approached Peter, and they said to him, “Doesn’t your Teacher pay the half shekel?”
- 24 He said, “Yes.” And when he had entered into the house, Jesus went before him, saying: “How does it seem to you, Simon? The kings of the earth, from whom do they receive tribute or the census tax: from their own sons or from foreigners?”
- 25 And he said, “From foreigners.” Jesus said to him: “Then the sons are free.
- 26 But so that we may not become an obstacle to them: go to the sea, and cast in a hook, and take the first fish that is brought up, and when you have opened its mouth, you will find a shekel. Take it and give it to them, for me and for you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version · in the CPDV this is Matthew 17:21–26

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 17](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/17/)

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. Maximilian Kolbe](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maximilian-kolbe/)

Priest and Martyr · Feast day August 14

Patron of prisoners, families, and journalists

[Read about St. Maximilian Kolbe](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maximilian-kolbe/)

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