The Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas · Weekday

Mass Readings for Saturday, December 30, 2028

On Saturday, December 30, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps the Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Luke 2:36-40.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

White

Celebration: The Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas
Season: Christmas Time
Rank: Weekday
Sunday cycle: Year A
Weekday cycle: Cycle I

Mass readings US

First Reading 1 John 2:12-17

12I am writing to you, little sons, because your sins are forgiven for the sake of his name.
13I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, adolescents, because you have overcome the evil one.
14I am writing to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I am writing to you, young men, because you are strong, and the Word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
15Do not choose to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.
16For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17And the world is passing away, with its desire. But whoever does the will of God abides unto eternity.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of 1 John 2

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 96:7-8a, 8b-9, 10

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 96 (95 in the Vulgate)

Gospel Luke 2:36-40

36And there was a prophetess, Anna, a daughter of Phanuel, from the tribe of Asher. She was very advanced in years, and she had lived with her husband for seven years from her virginity.
37And then she was a widow, even to her eighty-fourth year. And without departing from the temple, she was a servant to fasting and prayer, night and day.
38And entering at the same hour, she confessed to the Lord. And she spoke about him to all who were awaiting the redemption of Israel.
39And after they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their city, Nazareth.
40Now the child grew, and he was strengthened with the fullness of wisdom. And the grace of God was in him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 2

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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St. Egwin

Bishop · Remembered on December 30

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The day’s Mass is of the weekday (the Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas).

The liturgical day

Mass readings US

First Reading 1 John 2:12-17

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 96:7-8a, 8b-9, 10

Gospel Luke 2:36-40

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