First Reading Zephaniah 3:1-2, 9-13
Read in the CPDV: Zephaniah 3
Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent · Weekday
Mass Readings for Tuesday, December 15, 2026
On Tuesday, December 15, 2026, the Church in the United States keeps Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent (Cycle I); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Matthew 21:28-32.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent
- Season
- Advent · Week 3
- Rank
- Weekday
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 34:2-3, 6-7, 17-18, 19 and 23
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 34 (33 in the Vulgate)
Gospel Matthew 21:28-32
28But how does it seem to you? A certain man had two sons. And approaching the first, he said: ‘Son, go out today to work in my vineyard.’
29And responding, he said, ‘I am not willing.’ But afterwards, being moved by repentance, he went.
30And approaching the other, he spoke similarly. And answering, he said, ‘I am going, lord.’ And he did not go.
31Which of the two did the will of the father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them: “Amen I say to you, that tax collectors and prostitutes shall precede you, into the kingdom of God.
32For John came to you in the way of justice, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. Yet even after seeing this, you did not repent, so as to believe him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of 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
Virgin · Remembered on December 15
The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent).