First Reading Isaiah 45:6c-8, 18, 21c-25
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 45
Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent · Weekday
Mass Readings for Wednesday, December 16, 2026
On Wednesday, December 16, 2026, the Church in the United States keeps Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent (Cycle I); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 7:18b-23.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- Wednesday 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 85:9ab, 10, 11-12, 13-14
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 85 (84 in the Vulgate)
Alleluia See Isaiah 40:9-10
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 40
Gospel Luke 7:18b-23
18And the disciples of John reported to him concerning all these things.
19And John called two of his disciples, and he sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are you he who is to come, or should we wait for another?”
20But when the men had come to him, they said: “John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying: ‘Are you he who is to come, or should we wait for another?’”
21Now in that same hour, he cured many of their diseases and wounds and evil spirits; and to many of the blind, he gave sight.
22And responding, he said to them: “Go and report to John what you have heard and seen: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor are evangelized.
23And blessed is anyone who has not taken offense at me.”
Catholic Public Domain Version · part-verses shown as whole verses
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 7
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
Empress · Remembered on December 16
The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent).