First Reading 1 Samuel 1:24-28
Read in the CPDV: 1 Samuel 1
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent · Weekday
Mass Readings for Tuesday, December 22, 2026
On Tuesday, December 22, 2026, the Church in the United States keeps Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent (Cycle I); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 1:46-56.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent
- Season
- Advent · Week 4
- Rank
- Weekday
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm 1 Samuel 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8abcd
Read in the CPDV: 1 Samuel 2
Gospel Luke 1:46-56
46And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord.
47And my spirit leaps for joy in God my Savior.
48For he has looked with favor on the humility of his handmaid. For behold, from this time, all generations shall call me blessed.
49For he who is great has done great things for me, and holy is his name.
50And his mercy is from generation to generations for those who fear him.
51He has accomplished powerful deeds with his arm. He has scattered the arrogant in the intentions of their heart.
52He has deposed the powerful from their seat, and he has exalted the humble.
53He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.
54He has taken up his servant Israel, mindful of his mercy,
55just as he spoke to our fathers: to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”
56Then Mary stayed with her for about three months. And she returned to her own house.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of 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
Martyrs · Remembered on December 22
The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent).