First Reading Isaiah 26:1-6
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 26
St. Francis Xavier, Priest · Memorial
Mass Readings for Thursday, December 3, 2026
On Thursday, December 3, 2026, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saint Francis Xavier, Priest (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Matthew 7:21, 24-27.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
White
- Celebration
- St. Francis Xavier, Priest
- Season
- Advent · Week 1
- Rank
- Memorial
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 118:1 and 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 118 (117 in the Vulgate)
Alleluia Isaiah 55:6
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 55
Gospel Matthew 7:21, 24-27
21Not all who say to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
- Some verses are not read.
24Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them shall be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock.
25And the rains descended, and the floods rose up, and the winds blew, and rushed upon that house, but it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
26And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them shall be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.
27And the rains descended, and the floods rose up, and the winds blew, and rushed upon that house, and it did fall, and great was its ruin.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Matthew 7
Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar.
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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