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title: "Mass Readings for December 14, 2026: St. John of the Cross"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/12/14/
description: "December 14, 2026: St. John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church, Year B, Cycle I, white. Matthew 21:23-27. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

St. John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church · Memorial

# Mass Readings *for Monday, December 14, 2026*

On Monday, December 14, 2026, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Matthew 21:23-27.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

White

- **Celebration**: St. John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church
- **Season**: Advent · Week 3
- **Rank**: Memorial
- **Sunday cycle**: Year B
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17a

Read in the CPDV: [Numbers 24](https://blessbible.app/bible/numbers/24/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 25 (24 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/24/)

### Alleluia: Psalm 85:8

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

### Gospel: Matthew 21:23-27

- 23 And when he had arrived at the temple, as he was teaching, the leaders of the priests and the elders of the people approached him, saying: “By what authority do you do these things? And who has given this authority to you?”
- 24 In response, Jesus said to them: “I also will question you with one word: if you tell me this, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things.
- 25 The baptism of John, where was it from? Was it from heaven, or from men?” But they thought within themselves, saying:
- 26 “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’ But if we say, ‘From men,’ we have the crowd to fear, for they all hold John to be a prophet.”
- 27 And so, they answered Jesus by saying, “We do not know.” So he also said to them: “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 21](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/21/)

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. John of the Cross](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-of-the-cross/)

Priest and Doctor of the Church · Feast day December 14

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