First Reading Ezekiel 16:1-15, 60, 63
or Ezekiel 16:59-63
Read in the CPDV: Ezekiel 16
Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday
Mass Readings for Friday, August 18, 2028
On Friday, August 18, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle II); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Matthew 19:3-12.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Green
- Celebration
- Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
- Season
- Ordinary Time · Week 19
- Rank
- Weekday
- Sunday cycle
- Year C
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle II
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Isaiah 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 12
Alleluia See 1 Thessalonians 2:13
Read in the CPDV: 1 Thessalonians 2
Gospel Matthew 19:3-12
3And the Pharisees approached him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to separate from his wife, no matter what the cause?”
4And he said to them in response, “Have you not read that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female?” And he said:
5“For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh.
6And so, now they are not two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.”
7They said to him, “Then why did Moses command him to give a bill of divorce, and to separate?”
8He said to them: “Although Moses permitted you to separate from your wives, due to the hardness of your heart, it was not that way from the beginning.
9And I say to you, that whoever will have separated from his wife, except because of fornication, and who will have married another, commits adultery, and whoever will have married her who has been separated, commits adultery.”
10His disciples said to him, “If such is the case for a man with a wife, then it is not expedient to marry.”
11And he said to them: “Not everyone is able to grasp this word, but only those to whom it has been given.
12For there are chaste persons who were born so from their mother’s womb, and there are chaste persons who have been made so by men, and there are chaste persons who have made themselves chaste for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Whoever is able to grasp this, let him grasp it.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Matthew 19
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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