---
title: "Mass Readings for December 13, 2027: St. Lucy · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/12/13/
description: "December 13, 2027: St. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr, Year C, Cycle II, red. Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17a; Psalm 25; Matthew 21:23-27. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

St. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr · Memorial

# Mass Readings *for Monday, December 13, 2027*

On Monday, December 13, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr (Cycle II); the liturgical color is red. The Gospel is Matthew 21:23-27.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Red

- **Celebration**: St. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr
- **Season**: Advent · Week 3
- **Rank**: Memorial
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17a

Read in the CPDV: [Numbers 24](https://blessbible.app/bible/numbers/24/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 25 (24 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/24/)

### Alleluia: Psalm 85:8

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

### Gospel: Matthew 21:23-27

- 23 And when he had arrived at the temple, as he was teaching, the leaders of the priests and the elders of the people approached him, saying: “By what authority do you do these things? And who has given this authority to you?”
- 24 In response, Jesus said to them: “I also will question you with one word: if you tell me this, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things.
- 25 The baptism of John, where was it from? Was it from heaven, or from men?” But they thought within themselves, saying:
- 26 “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’ But if we say, ‘From men,’ we have the crowd to fear, for they all hold John to be a prophet.”
- 27 And so, they answered Jesus by saying, “We do not know.” So he also said to them: “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 21](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/21/)

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. Lucy](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lucy/)

Virgin and Martyr · Feast day December 13

Patron of the blind and those with eye trouble

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

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