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title: "Mass Readings for December 21, 2026 (Monday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/12/21/
description: "December 21, 2026: Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent, Year B, Cycle I, violet. Song of Songs 2:8-14; Psalm 33; Luke 1:39-45. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Monday, December 21, 2026*

On Monday, December 21, 2026, the Church in the United States keeps Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent (Cycle I); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 1:39-45.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

- **Celebration**: Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent
- **Season**: Advent · Week 4
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year B
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Song of Songs 2:8-14

or Zephaniah 3:14-18a

Read in the CPDV: [Song of Songs 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/song-of-songs/2/) [Zephaniah 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/zephaniah/3/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 33 (32 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/32/)

### Gospel: Luke 1:39-45

- 39 And in those days, Mary, rising up, traveled quickly into the hill country, to a city of Judah.
- 40 And she entered into the house of Zechariah, and she greeted Elizabeth.
- 41 And it happened that, as Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
- 42 And she cried out with a loud voice and said: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
- 43 And how does this concern me, so that the mother of my Lord would come to me?
- 44 For behold, as the voice of your greeting came to my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
- 45 And blessed are you who believed, for the things that were spoken to you by the Lord shall be accomplished.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Luke 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/1/)

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. Peter Canisius](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter-canisius/)

Priest and Doctor of the Church · Remembered on December 21

[Read about St. Peter Canisius](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter-canisius/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent).

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