---
title: "Mass Readings for September 16, 2028: Cornelius and Cyprian"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/09/16/
description: "September 16, 2028: Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and St. Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs, Year C, Cycle II, red. Luke 6:43-49. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and St. Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs · Memorial

# Mass Readings *for Saturday, September 16, 2028*

On Saturday, September 16, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Saint Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs (Cycle II); the liturgical color is red. The Gospel is Luke 6:43-49.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Red

- **Celebration**: Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and St. Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs
- **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 23
- **Rank**: Memorial
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:14-22

The text isn’t printed here: Bless can’t yet confirm that these verses line up exactly between the US Lectionary and the CPDV.

Read in the CPDV: [1 Corinthians 10](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-corinthians/10/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 116:12-13, 17-18

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 116:10–19 (115 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/115/)

### Alleluia: John 14:23

Read in the CPDV: [John 14](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/14/)

### Gospel: Luke 6:43-49

- 43 For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor does an evil tree produce good fruit.
- 44 For each and every tree is known by its fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather the grape from the bramble bush.
- 45 A good man, from the good storehouse of his heart, offers what is good. And an evil man, from the evil storehouse, offers what is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- 46 But why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I say?
- 47 Anyone who comes to me, and listens to my words, and does them: I will reveal to you what he is like.
- 48 He is like a man building a house, who has dug deep and has laid the foundation upon the rock. Then, when the floodwaters came, the river was rushing against that house, and it was not able to move it. For it was founded upon the rock.
- 49 But whoever hears and does not do: he is like a man building his house upon the soil, without a foundation. The river rushed against it, and it soon fell down, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Luke 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/6/)

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. Cyprian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyprian/)

Bishop and Martyr · Feast day September 16

[Read about St. Cyprian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyprian/)

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