---
title: "Mass Readings for December 7, 2026: St. Ambrose · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/12/07/
description: "December 7, 2026: St. Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, Year B, Cycle I, white. Isaiah 35:1-10; Psalm 85; Luke 5:17-26. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

St. Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church · Memorial

# Mass Readings *for Monday, December 7, 2026*

On Monday, December 7, 2026, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Luke 5:17-26.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

White

- **Celebration**: St. Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
- **Season**: Advent · Week 2
- **Rank**: Memorial
- **Sunday cycle**: Year B
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Isaiah 35:1-10

Read in the CPDV: [Isaiah 35](https://blessbible.app/bible/isaiah/35/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 85 (84 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/84/)

### Gospel: Luke 5:17-26

- 17 And it happened, on a certain day, that he again sat down, teaching. And there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting nearby, who had come from every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present, to heal them.
- 18 And behold, some men were carrying in the bed of a man who was paralyzed. And they sought a way to bring him in, and to place him before him.
- 19 And not finding a way by which they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they climbed up to the roof, and they let him down through the roof tiles with his bed, into their midst, in front of Jesus.
- 20 And when he saw his faith, he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
- 21 And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: “Who is this, who is speaking blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins, except God alone?”
- 22 But when Jesus realized their thoughts, responding, he said to them: “What are you thinking in your hearts?
- 23 Which is easier to say: ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk?’
- 24 But so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he said to the paralytic, “I say to you to: Rise up, take up your bed, and go into your house.”
- 25 And at once, rising up in their sight, he took up the bed on which he was lying, and he went away to his own house, magnifying God.
- 26 And astonishment took hold of everyone, and they were magnifying God. And they were filled with fear, saying: “For we have seen miracles today.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Luke 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/5/)

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. Ambrose](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ambrose/)

Bishop and Doctor of the Church · Feast day December 7

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

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