--- title: "Mass Readings for August 27, 2028: 21st Sunday in OT · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/08/27/ description: "August 27, 2028: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C, green. Isaiah 66:18-21; Psalm 117; Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13; Luke 13:22-30. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time # Mass Readings *for Sunday, August 27, 2028* On Sunday, August 27, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Luke 13:22-30. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color Green - **Celebration**: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 21 - **Rank**: Sunday - **Sunday cycle**: Year C - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II ## Mass readings (US) ### First Reading: Isaiah 66:18-21 Read in the CPDV: [Isaiah 66](https://blessbible.app/bible/isaiah/66/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 117:1, 2 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 117 (116 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/116/) ### Second Reading: Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 - 5 And you have forgotten the consolation which speaks to you like sons, saying: “My son, do not be willing to neglect the discipline of the Lord. Neither should you become weary, while being rebuked by him.” - 6 For whomever the Lord loves, he chastises. And every son whom he accepts, he scourges. - 7 Persevere in discipline. God presents you to himself as sons. But what son is there, whom his father does not correct? - 11 Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it. - 12 Because of this, lift up your lazy hands and your lax knees, - 13 and straighten the path of your feet, so that no one, being lame, may wander astray, but instead may be healed. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Hebrews 12](https://blessbible.app/bible/hebrews/12/) ### Alleluia: John 14:6 Read in the CPDV: [John 14](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/14/) ### Gospel: Luke 13:22-30 - 22 And he was traveling through the cities and towns, teaching and making his way to Jerusalem. - 23 And someone said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?” But he said to them: - 24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and not be able. - 25 Then, when the father of the family will have entered and shut the door, you will begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us.’ And in response, he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ - 26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ - 27 And he will say to you: ‘I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity!’ - 28 In that place, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, yet you yourselves are expelled outside. - 29 And they will arrive from the East, and the West, and the North, and the South; and they will recline at table in the kingdom of God. - 30 And behold, those who are last will be first, and those who are first will be last.” Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Luke 13](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/13/) 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. Spotted a wrong date, color or citation? [Report an error](https://blessbible.app/support/#report) and we’ll fix it in the app and here. ## Saint of the day [St. Monica](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-monica/) Mother of St. Augustine · Feast day August 27 Patron of mothers and difficult children [Read about St. Monica](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-monica/) The day’s Mass celebrates the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. [August 2028, day by day](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/08/) [Liturgical calendar 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/) [Today in the Church](https://blessbible.app/today/) [Previous day Sat, Aug 26](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/08/26/) [Next day Mon, Aug 28](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/08/28/)