--- title: "Mass Readings for September 3, 2028: 22nd Sunday in OT" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/09/03/ description: "September 3, 2028: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C, green. Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Luke 14:1, 7-14. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time # Mass Readings *for Sunday, September 3, 2028* On Sunday, September 3, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Luke 14:1, 7-14. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color Green - **Celebration**: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 22 - **Rank**: Sunday - **Sunday cycle**: Year C - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II ## Mass readings (US) ### First Reading: Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 Read in the CPDV: [Sirach 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/sirach/3/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 68 (67 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/67/) ### Second Reading: Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a - 18 But you have not drawn near to a tangible mountain, or a burning fire, or a whirlwind, or a mist, or a storm, - 19 or the sound of a trumpet, or a voice of words. Those who had experienced these things excused themselves, lest the Word be spoken to them. - 22 But you have drawn near to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of Angels, - 23 and to the Church of the first-born, those who have been inscribed in the heavens, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect, - 24 and to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Testament, and to a sprinkling of blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel. Catholic Public Domain Version · part-verses shown as whole verses Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Hebrews 12](https://blessbible.app/bible/hebrews/12/) ### Alleluia: Matthew 11:29ab Read in the CPDV: [Matthew 11](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/11/) ### Gospel: Luke 14:1, 7-14 - 1 And it happened that, when Jesus entered the house of a certain leader of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they were observing him. - 7 Then he also told a parable, to those who were invited, noticing how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them: - 8 “When you are invited to a wedding, do not sit down in the first place, lest perhaps someone more honored than yourself may have been invited by him. - 9 And then he who called both you and him, approaching, may say to you, ‘Give this place to him.’ And then you would begin, with shame, to take the last place. - 10 But when you are invited, go, sit down in the lowest place, so that, when he who invited you arrives, he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the sight of those who sit at table together with you. - 11 For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.” - 12 Then he also said to the one who had invited him: “When you prepare a lunch or dinner, do not choose to call your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your wealthy neighbors, lest perhaps they might then invite you in return and repayment would made to you. - 13 But when you prepare a feast, call the poor, the disabled, the lame, and the blind. - 14 And you will be blessed because they do not have a way to repay you. So then, your recompense will be in the resurrection of the just.” Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Luke 14](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/14/) 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. Gregory the Great](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gregory-the-great/) Pope and Doctor of the Church · Feast day September 3 [Read about St. Gregory the Great](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gregory-the-great/) The day’s Mass celebrates the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. [September 2028, day by day](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/09/) [Liturgical calendar 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/) [Today in the Church](https://blessbible.app/today/) [Previous day Sat, Sep 2](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/09/02/) [Next day Mon, Sep 4](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/09/04/)