Thursday of the Fourth Week of Advent · Weekday
Mass Readings for Thursday, December 23, 2027
On Thursday, December 23, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Fourth Week of Advent (Cycle II); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 1:57-66.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- Thursday of the Fourth Week of Advent
- Season
- Advent · Week 4
- Rank
- Weekday
- Sunday cycle
- Year C
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle II
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 25:4-5ab, 8-9, 10 and 14
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 25 (24 in the Vulgate)
Gospel Luke 1:57-66
57Now the time for Elizabeth to give birth arrived, and she brought forth a son.
58And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy with her, and so they congratulated her.
59And it happened that, on the eighth day, they arrived to circumcise the boy, and they called him by his father’s name, Zechariah.
60And in response, his mother said: “Not so. Instead, he shall be called John.”
61And they said to her, “But there is no one among your relatives who is called by that name.”
62Then they made signs to his father, as to what he wanted him to be called.
63And requesting a writing tablet, he wrote, saying: “His name is John.” And they all wondered.
64Then, at once, his mouth was opened, and his tongue loosened, and he spoke, blessing God.
65And fear fell upon all of their neighbors. And all these words were made known throughout all the hill country of Judea.
66And all those who heard it stored it up in their heart, saying: “What do you think this boy will be?” And indeed, the hand of the Lord was with him.
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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