First Reading Isaiah 48:17-19
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 48
Friday of the Second Week of Advent · Weekday
Mass Readings for Friday, December 11, 2026
On Friday, December 11, 2026, the Church in the United States keeps Friday of the Second Week of Advent (Cycle I); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Matthew 11:16-19.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- Friday of the Second Week of Advent
- Season
- Advent · Week 2
- Rank
- Weekday
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 1
Gospel Matthew 11:16-19
16But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplace,
17who, calling out to their companions, say: ‘We played music for you, and you did not dance. We lamented, and you did not mourn.’
18For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
19The Son of man came eating and drinking; and they say, ‘Behold, a man who eats voraciously and who drinks wine, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is justified by her sons.”
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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Saint of the day
Pope · Remembered on December 11
The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Friday of the Second Week of Advent).