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title: "Mass Readings for December 16, 2027 (Thursday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/12/16/
description: "December 16, 2027: Thursday of the Third Week of Advent, Year C, Cycle II, violet. Isaiah 54:1-10; Psalm 30; Luke 7:24-30. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Thursday of the Third Week of Advent · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Thursday, December 16, 2027*

On Thursday, December 16, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Third Week of Advent (Cycle II); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 7:24-30.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

- **Celebration**: Thursday of the Third Week of Advent
- **Season**: Advent · Week 3
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Isaiah 54:1-10

Read in the CPDV: [Isaiah 54](https://blessbible.app/bible/isaiah/54/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and 13b

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 30 (29 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/29/)

### Gospel: Luke 7:24-30

- 24 And when the messengers of John had withdrawn, he began to speak about John to the crowds. “What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
- 25 Then what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Behold, those who are in costly apparel and finery are in the houses of kings.
- 26 Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Certainly, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
- 27 This is he of whom it is written: “Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.”
- 28 For I say to you, among those born of women, no one is greater than the prophet John the Baptist. But he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
- 29 And upon hearing this, all the people and the tax collectors justified God, by being baptized with the baptism of John.
- 30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law despised the counsel of God concerning themselves, by not being baptized by him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Luke 7](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/7/)

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. Adelaide](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-adelaide/)

Empress · Remembered on December 16

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

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Thursday of the Third Week of Advent).

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