First Reading Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 40
Second Sunday of Advent
Mass Readings for Sunday, December 6, 2026
On Sunday, December 6, 2026, the Church in the United States celebrates the Second Sunday of Advent (Year B); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Mark 1:1-8.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- Second Sunday of Advent
- Season
- Advent · Week 2
- Rank
- Sunday
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 85 (84 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading 2 Peter 3:8-14
8Yet truly, let this one thing not escape notice, most beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day.
9The Lord is not delaying his promise, as some imagine, but he does act patiently for your sake, not wanting anyone to perish, but wanting all to be turned back to penance.
10Then the day of the Lord shall arrive like a thief. On that day, the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and truly the elements shall be dissolved with heat; then the earth, and the works that are within it, shall be completely burned up.
11Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what kind of people ought you to be? In behavior and in piety, be holy,
12waiting for, and hurrying toward, the advent of the day of the Lord, by which the burning heavens shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt from the heat of the fire.
13Yet truly, in accord with his promises, we are looking forward to the new heavens and the new earth, in which justice lives.
14Therefore, most beloved, while awaiting these things, be diligent, so that you may be found to be immaculate and unassailable before him, in peace.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of 2 Peter 3
Alleluia Luke 3:4, 6
Read in the CPDV: Luke 3
Gospel Mark 1:1-8
1The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
2As it has been written by the prophet Isaiah: “Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.
3The voice of one crying out in the desert: Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths.”
4John was in the desert, baptizing and preaching a baptism of repentance, as a remission of sins.
5And there went out to him all the region of Judea and all those of Jerusalem, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
6And John was clothed with camel’s hair and with a leather belt around his waist. And he ate locusts and wild honey.
7And he preached, saying: “One stronger than me comes after me. I am not worthy to reach down and loosen the laces of his shoes.
8I have baptized you with water. Yet truly, he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Mark 1
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
Bishop · Remembered on December 6
Patron of children, sailors, and those in need
Read about St. NicholasThe day’s Mass celebrates the Second Sunday of Advent.