---
title: "Mass Readings for December 16, 2026 (Wednesday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/12/16/
description: "December 16, 2026: Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent, Year B, Cycle I, violet. Isaiah 45:6c-8, 18, 21c-25; Psalm 85; Luke 7:18b-23. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

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.

Updated October 20, 2026

## 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)

### First Reading: Isaiah 45:6c-8, 18, 21c-25

Read in the CPDV: [Isaiah 45](https://blessbible.app/bible/isaiah/45/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 85:9ab, 10, 11-12, 13-14

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

### Alleluia: See Isaiah 40:9-10

Read in the CPDV: [Isaiah 40](https://blessbible.app/bible/isaiah/40/)

### Gospel: Luke 7:18b-23

- 18 And the disciples of John reported to him concerning all these things.
- 19 And 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?”
- 20 But 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?’”
- 21 Now in that same hour, he cured many of their diseases and wounds and evil spirits; and to many of the blind, he gave sight.
- 22 And 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.
- 23 And 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](https://blessbible.app/bible/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

[St. Adelaide](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-adelaide/)

Empress · Remembered on December 16

[Read about St. Adelaide](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-adelaide/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent).

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