First Reading 2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16
Read in the CPDV: 2 Samuel 7
Thursday of the Fourth Week of Advent · Weekday
Mass Readings for Thursday, December 24, 2026
On Thursday, December 24, 2026, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Fourth Week of Advent (Cycle I); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 1:67-79.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- Thursday 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 Psalm 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 89 (88 in the Vulgate)
Gospel Luke 1:67-79
67And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit. And he prophesied, saying:
68“Blessed is the Lord God of Israel. For he has visited and has wrought the redemption of his people.
69And he has raised up a horn of salvation for us, in the house of David his servant,
70just as he spoke by the mouth of his holy Prophets, who are from ages past:
71salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all those who hate us,
72to accomplish mercy with our fathers, and to call to mind his holy testament,
73the oath, which he swore to Abraham, our father, that he would grant to us,
74so that, having been freed from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him without fear,
75in holiness and in justice before him, throughout all our days.
76And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the face of the Lord: to prepare his ways,
77to give knowledge of salvation to his people for the remission of their sins,
78through the heart of the mercy of our God, by which, descending from on high, he has visited us,
79to illuminate those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to direct our feet in the way of peace.”
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
Our First Parents · Remembered on December 24
The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Thursday of the Fourth Week of Advent).