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title: "Mass Readings for December 5, 2026 (Saturday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/12/05/
description: "December 5, 2026: Saturday of the First Week of Advent, Year B, Cycle I, violet. Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26; Matthew 9:35—10:1, 5a, 6-8. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Saturday of the First Week of Advent · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Saturday, December 5, 2026*

On Saturday, December 5, 2026, the Church in the United States keeps Saturday of the First Week of Advent (Cycle I); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Matthew 9:35—10:1, 5a, 6-8.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

- **Celebration**: Saturday of the First Week of Advent
- **Season**: Advent · Week 1
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year B
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26

Read in the CPDV: [Isaiah 30](https://blessbible.app/bible/isaiah/30/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 147:1–11 (146 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/146/)

### Alleluia: Isaiah 33:22

Read in the CPDV: [Isaiah 33](https://blessbible.app/bible/isaiah/33/)

### Gospel: Matthew 9:35—10:1, 5a, 6-8

- 35 And Jesus traveled throughout all of the cities and towns, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every illness and every infirmity.
- 36 Then, seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them, because they were distressed and were reclining, like sheep without a shepherd.
- 37 Then he said to his disciples: “The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few.
- 38 Therefore, petition the Lord of the harvest, so that he may sent out laborers to his harvest.”
- 10:1 And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out and to cure every sickness and every infirmity.
- 5 Jesus sent these twelve, instructing them, saying: “Do not travel by the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter into the city of the Samaritans,
- 6 but instead go to the sheep who have fallen away from the house of Israel.
- 7 And going forth, preach, saying: ‘For the kingdom of heaven has drawn near.’
- 8 Cure the infirm, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You have received freely, so give freely.

Catholic Public Domain Version · part-verses shown as whole verses

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 9](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/9/) [The whole of Matthew 10](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/10/)

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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## Saint of the day

[St. Sabas](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-sabas/)

Abbot · Remembered on December 5

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

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Saturday of the First Week of Advent).

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