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Saturday of the First Week of Advent · Weekday

Mass Readings for Saturday, December 4, 2027

On Saturday, December 4, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Saturday of the First Week of Advent (Cycle II); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Matthew 9:35—10:1, 5a, 6-8.

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The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

Celebration
Saturday of the First Week of Advent
Season
Advent · Week 1
Rank
Weekday
Sunday cycle
Year C
Weekday cycle
Cycle II

Mass readings US

First Reading Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26

Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 30

Alleluia Isaiah 33:22

Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 33

Gospel Matthew 9:35—10:1, 5a, 6-8

  • 35And Jesus traveled throughout all of the cities and towns, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every illness and every infirmity.

  • 36Then, seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them, because they were distressed and were reclining, like sheep without a shepherd.

  • 37Then he said to his disciples: “The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few.

  • 38Therefore, petition the Lord of the harvest, so that he may sent out laborers to his harvest.”

  • 10:1And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out and to cure every sickness and every infirmity.

  • Some verses are not read.
  • 5Jesus sent these twelve, instructing them, saying: “Do not travel by the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter into the city of the Samaritans,

  • 6but instead go to the sheep who have fallen away from the house of Israel.

  • 7And going forth, preach, saying: ‘For the kingdom of heaven has drawn near.’

  • 8Cure the infirm, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You have received freely, so give freely.

Catholic Public Domain Version · part-verses shown as whole verses

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Matthew 9The whole of Matthew 10

Computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

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. John Damascene

Priest and Doctor of the Church · Remembered on December 4

Read about St. John Damascene

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Saturday of the First Week of Advent).

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