First Reading Micah 5:1-4a
Read in the CPDV: Micah 5
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Mass Readings for Sunday, December 19, 2027
On Sunday, December 19, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year C); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 1:39-45.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- Fourth Sunday of Advent
- Season
- Advent · Week 4
- Rank
- Sunday
- Sunday cycle
- Year C
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle II
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 80 (79 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading Hebrews 10:5-10
5For this reason, as Christ enters into the world, he says: “Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. But you have fashioned a body for me.
6Holocausts for sin were not pleasing to you.
7Then I said, ‘Behold, I draw near.’ At the head of the book, it has been written of me that I should do your will, O God.”
8In the above, by saying, “Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin, you did not want, nor are those things pleasing to you, which are offered according to the law;
9then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,’” he takes away the first, so that he may establish what follows.
10For by this will, we have been sanctified, through the one time oblation of the body of Jesus Christ.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Hebrews 10
Alleluia Luke 1:38
Read in the CPDV: Luke 1
Gospel Luke 1:39-45
39And in those days, Mary, rising up, traveled quickly into the hill country, to a city of Judah.
40And she entered into the house of Zechariah, and she greeted Elizabeth.
41And it happened that, as Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
42And she cried out with a loud voice and said: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
43And how does this concern me, so that the mother of my Lord would come to me?
44For behold, as the voice of your greeting came to my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
45And blessed are you who believed, for the things that were spoken to you by the Lord shall be accomplished.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 1
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
Pope · Remembered on December 19
The day’s Mass celebrates the Fourth Sunday of Advent.