Thursday, December 2, 2027
Thursday of the first week of Advent
The liturgical day
Thursday of the first week of Advent
- Advent
- Liturgical color: Violet
The Mass readings
- First reading
- Isaiah 26:1-6
- Responsorial Psalm
- Psalm 118:1 and 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a
- Gospel
- Matthew 7:21, 24-27
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 26:1-6
Douay-Rheims: Isaias 26:1-6
1In that day shall this canticle be sung the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein. 2Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the truth, enter in. 3The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee. 4You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty for ever. 5For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high city he shall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the ground, he shall pull it down even to the dust. 6The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 118:1 and 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a
Douay-Rheims: Psalm 117:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27 (Psalm 118 at Mass)
1Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
8It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man. 9It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes.
19Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go into them, and give praise to the Lord. 20This is the gate of the Lord, the just shall enter into it. 21I will give glory to thee because thou hast heard me: and art become my salvation.
25O Lord, save me: O Lord, give good success. 26Blessed be he that cometh in the name Lord. We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. 27The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar.
Gospel: Matthew 7:21, 24-27
Douay-Rheims: Matthew 7:21, 24-27
21Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, 25And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock. 26And every one that heareth these my words, and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, 27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.
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.
December 2027
Key
- Violet
- White
- Rose
- Red
- ObligHoly day of obligation (also a solemnity)
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A word for the day
Leave vain things to vain men, and mind thou the things which God hath commanded thee.
The Rosary today
The Luminous Mysteries, prayed on Thursday.
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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.