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Sunday, November 29, 2026

First Sunday of Advent

The liturgical day

First Sunday of Advent

  • Advent
  • Liturgical color: Violet

The Mass readings

First reading
Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19
Second reading
1 Corinthians 1:3-9
Gospel
Mark 13:33-37

Read today's Mass readings on the USCCB site

The readings open on the USCCB website. They follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the United States, a different translation from the Douay-Rheims we use on this site. Desert Road Catholic is not affiliated with the USCCB.

First reading: Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7

Douay-Rheims: Isaias 63:16-17; 64:1, 3-8

63:16For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name. 17Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.

64:1That thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

3When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away. 4From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee. 5Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved. 6And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 7There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity. 8And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 79:2-3, 15-16, 18-19 (Psalm 80 at Mass)

2Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth 3Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

15Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard: 16And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

18Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself. 19And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.

Second reading: 1 Corinthians 1:3-9

Douay-Rheims: 1 Corinthians 1:3-9

3Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 4I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Christ Jesus, 5That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; 6As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, 7So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Gospel: Mark 13:33-37

Douay-Rheims: Mark 13:33-37

33Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is. 34Even as a man who going into a far country, left his house; and gave authority to his servants over every work, and commanded the porter to watch. 35Watch ye therefore, (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh: at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning,) 36Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping. 37And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.

The same passages in the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), the translation we use on this site. The words read at Mass come from the Lectionary for Mass and differ. Where a reading begins or ends partway through a verse, the whole verse is shown. For the official text, open the readings on the USCCB site.

November 2026

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89, The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, liturgical color white10, Saint Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white11, Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop, liturgical color white12, Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr, liturgical color red13, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin, liturgical color white14, Saturday of the thirty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
15, Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green16, Monday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green17, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious, liturgical color white18, Wednesday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green19, Thursday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green20, Friday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green21, The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, liturgical color white
22, Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, liturgical color white, Solemnity23, Monday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green24, Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs, liturgical color red25, Wednesday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green26, Thursday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green27, Friday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green28, Saturday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
29, First Sunday of Advent, liturgical color violet, this page30, Saint Andrew, Apostle, liturgical color red

Key

  • White
  • Red
  • Green
  • Violet
  • SolSolemnity

The dot shows the liturgical color of the day. Fridays outside Lent carry no marker.

A word for the day

Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I, q. 1, a. 8, reply to objection 2. Translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

The Rosary today

The Glorious Mysteries, prayed on Wednesday and Sunday.

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Calendar computed with romcal (MIT License). Reading citations from the Catholic Readings API (MIT License), with gaps checked against the USCCB pages. Douay-Rheims text courtesy of eBible.org.