Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

Mass Readings for Wednesday, August 30, 2028

On Wednesday, August 30, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle II); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Matthew 23:27-32.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

Green

Celebration: Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time
Season: Ordinary Time · Week 21
Rank: Weekday
Sunday cycle: Year C
Weekday cycle: Cycle II

Mass readings US

First Reading 2 Thessalonians 3:6-10, 16-18

6But we strongly caution you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to draw yourselves away from every brother who is walking in disorder and not according to the tradition that they received from us.
7For you yourselves know the manner in which you ought to imitate us. For we were not disorderly among you.
8Nor did we eat bread from anyone for free, but rather, we worked night and day, in hardship and weariness, so as not to be burdensome to you.
9It was not as if we had no authority, but this was so that we might present ourselves as an example to you, in order to imitate us.
10Then, too, while we were with you, we insisted on this to you: that if anyone was not willing to work, neither should he eat.
Some verses are not read.
16Then may the Lord of peace himself give you an everlasting peace, in every place. May the Lord be with all of you.
17The greeting of Paul with my own hand, which is the seal in every epistle. So do I write.
18May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of 2 Thessalonians 3

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 128:1-2, 4-5

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 128 (127 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia 1 John 2:5

Read in the CPDV: 1 John 2

Gospel Matthew 23:27-32

27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed sepulchers, which outwardly appear brilliant to men, yet truly, inside, they are filled with the bones of the dead and with all filth.
28So also, you certainly appear to men outwardly to be just. But inwardly you are filled with hypocrisy and iniquity.
29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, who build the sepulchers of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just.
30And then you say, ‘If we had been there in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined with them in the blood of the prophets.’
31And so you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets.
32Complete, then, the measure of your fathers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of 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. Margaret Ward

Martyr · Remembered on August 30

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