First Reading Isaiah 2:1-5
Read in the CPDV: Isaiah 2
First Sunday of Advent
Mass Readings for Sunday, December 3, 2028
On Sunday, December 3, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the First Sunday of Advent (Year A); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Matthew 24:37-44.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- First Sunday of Advent
- Season
- Advent · Week 1
- Rank
- Sunday
- Sunday cycle
- Year A
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 122 (121 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading Romans 13:11-14
11And we know the present time, that now is the hour for us to rise up from sleep. For already our salvation is closer than when we first believed.
12The night has passed, and the day draws near. Therefore, let us cast aside the works of darkness, and be clothed with the armor of light.
13Let us walk honestly, as in the daylight, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and sexual immorality, not in contention and envy.
14Instead, be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in its desires.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Romans 13
Alleluia Cf. Psalm 85:8
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 85 (84 in the Vulgate)
Gospel Matthew 24:37-44
37And just as in the days of Noah, so also will be the advent of the Son of man.
38For it will be just as it was in the days before the flood: eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, even until that day when Noah entered into the ark.
39And they did not realize it, until the flood came and took them all away. So also will the advent of the Son of man be.
40Then two men will be in a field: one will be taken up, and one will be left behind.
41Two women will be grinding at a millstone: one will be taken up, and one will be left behind.
42Therefore, be vigilant. For you do not know at what hour your Lord will return.
43But know this: if only the father of the family knew at what hour the thief would arrive, he would certainly keep vigil and not permit his house to be broken into.
44For this reason, you also must be prepared, for you do not know at what hour the Son of man will return.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Matthew 24
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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