First Reading Song of Songs 2:8-14
or Zephaniah 3:14-18a
Read in the CPDV: Song of Songs 2Zephaniah 3
Thursday of the Third Week of Advent · Weekday
Mass Readings for Thursday, December 21, 2028
On Thursday, December 21, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Third Week of Advent (Cycle I); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 1:39-45.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- Thursday of the Third Week of Advent
- Season
- Advent · Week 3
- Rank
- Weekday
- Sunday cycle
- Year A
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 33 (32 in the Vulgate)
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
Priest and Doctor of the Church · Remembered on December 21
The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Thursday of the Third Week of Advent).