--- title: "Mass Readings for August 30, 2028 (Wednesday) · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/08/30/ description: "August 30, 2028: Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time, Year C, Cycle II, green. Matthew 23:27-32. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- 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 ## The liturgical day 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 - 6 But 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. - 7 For you yourselves know the manner in which you ought to imitate us. For we were not disorderly among you. - 8 Nor 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. - 9 It 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. - 10 Then, too, while we were with you, we insisted on this to you: that if anyone was not willing to work, neither should he eat. - 16 Then may the Lord of peace himself give you an everlasting peace, in every place. May the Lord be with all of you. - 17 The greeting of Paul with my own hand, which is the seal in every epistle. So do I write. - 18 May 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](https://blessbible.app/bible/2-thessalonians/3/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 128:1-2, 4-5 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 128 (127 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/127/) ### Alleluia: 1 John 2:5 Read in the CPDV: [1 John 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-john/2/) ### Gospel: Matthew 23:27-32 - 27 Woe 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. - 28 So also, you certainly appear to men outwardly to be just. But inwardly you are filled with hypocrisy and iniquity. - 29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, who build the sepulchers of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just. - 30 And 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.’ - 31 And so you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets. - 32 Complete, then, the measure of your fathers. 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. 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. Margaret Ward](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-margaret-ward/) Martyr · Remembered on August 30 [Read about St. Margaret Ward](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-margaret-ward/) The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week 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 Tue, Aug 29](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/08/29/) [Next day Thu, Aug 31](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/08/31/)