---
title: "Mass Readings for August 26, 2028 (Saturday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/08/26/
description: "August 26, 2028: Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, Year C, Cycle II, green. Ezekiel 43:1-7ab; Psalm 85; Matthew 23:1-12. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Saturday, August 26, 2028*

On Saturday, August 26, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle II); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Matthew 23:1-12.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Green

- **Celebration**: Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
- **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 20
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Ezekiel 43:1-7ab

Read in the CPDV: [Ezekiel 43](https://blessbible.app/bible/ezekiel/43/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 85:9ab, 10, 11-12, 13-14

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 85 (84 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/84/)

### Alleluia: Matthew 23:9b, 10b

Read in the CPDV: [Matthew 23](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/23/)

### Gospel: Matthew 23:1-12

- 1 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds, and to his disciples,
- 2 saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have sat down in the chair of Moses.
- 3 Therefore, all things whatsoever that they shall say to you, observe and do. Yet truly, do not choose to act according to their works. For they say, but they do not do.
- 4 For they bind up heavy and unbearable burdens, and they impose them on men’s shoulders. But they are not willing to move them with even a finger of their own.
- 5 Truly, they do all their works so that they may be seen by men. For they enlarge their phylacteries and glorify their hems.
- 6 And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,
- 7 and greetings in the marketplace, and to be called Master by men.
- 8 But you must not be called Master. For One is your Master, and you are all brothers.
- 9 And do not choose to call anyone on earth your father. For One is your Father, who is in heaven.
- 10 Neither should you be called teachers. For One is your Teacher, the Christ.
- 11 Whoever is greater among you shall be your minister.
- 12 But whoever has exalted himself, shall be humbled. And whoever has humbled himself, shall be exalted.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 23](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/23/)

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 of Jesus Jornet](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-of-jesus-jornet/)

Virgin · Remembered on August 26

Patron of the elderly

[Read about St. Teresa of Jesus Jornet](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-of-jesus-jornet/)

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

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