First Reading Isaiah 41:13-20
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 41
Thursday of the Second Week of Advent · Weekday
On Thursday, December 10, 2026, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Second Week of Advent (Cycle I); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Matthew 11:11-15.
Liturgical color
Violet
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 41
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 145 (144 in the Vulgate)
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 45
11Amen I say to you, among those born of women, there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12But from the days of John the Baptist, even until now, the kingdom of heaven has endured violence, and the violent carry it away.
13For all the prophets and the law prophesied, even until John.
14And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah, who is to come.
15Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Matthew 11
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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Priest and Martyr · Remembered on December 10
The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Thursday of the Second Week of Advent).