First Reading Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10
Read in the CPDV: Jeremiah 38
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings for Sunday, August 20, 2028
On Sunday, August 20, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Luke 12:49-53.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Green
- Celebration
- Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Season
- Ordinary Time · Week 20
- Rank
- Sunday
- Sunday cycle
- Year C
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle II
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 40:2, 3, 4, 18
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 40 (39 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading Hebrews 12:1-4
1Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.
2Let us gaze upon Jesus, as the Author and the completion of our faith, who, having joy laid out before him, endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and who now sits at the right hand of the throne of God.
3So then, meditate upon him who endured such adversity from sinners against himself, so that you may not become weary, failing in your souls.
4For you have not yet resisted unto blood, while striving against sin.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Hebrews 12
Alleluia John 10:27
Read in the CPDV: John 10
Gospel Luke 12:49-53
49I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled?
50And I have a baptism, with which I am to be baptized. And how I am constrained, even until it may be accomplished!
51Do you think that I have come to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.
52For from this time on, there will be five in one house: divided as three against two, and as two against three.
53A father will be divided against a son, and a son against his father; a mother against a daughter and a daughter against a mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
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
Abbot and Doctor of the Church · Feast day August 20
The day’s Mass celebrates the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.