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Friday, December 10, 2027

Friday of the second week of Advent

The liturgical day

Friday of the second week of Advent

  • Advent
  • Liturgical color: Violet

The Mass readings

First reading
Isaiah 48:17-19
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
Gospel
Matthew 11:16-19

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 48:17-19

Douay-Rheims: Isaias 48:17-19

17Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things, that govern thee in the way that thou walkest. 18O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea, 19And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor have been destroyed from before my face.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 1:1-4, 6

1Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence. 2But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night. 3And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper. 4Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

6For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Gospel: Matthew 11:16-19

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 11:16-19

16But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place. 17Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned. 18For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He hath a devil. 19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.

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

December 2027
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1, Wednesday of the first week of Advent, liturgical color violet2, Thursday of the first week of Advent, liturgical color violet3, Saint Francis Xavier, Priest, liturgical color white4, Saturday of the first week of Advent, liturgical color violet
5, Second Sunday of Advent, liturgical color violet6, Monday of the second week of Advent, liturgical color violet7, Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white8, The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Patroness of the USA, liturgical color white, Holy day of obligation (also a solemnity)9, Thursday of the second week of Advent, liturgical color violet10, Friday of the second week of Advent, liturgical color violet, this page11, Saturday of the second week of Advent, liturgical color violet
12, Third Sunday of Advent, liturgical color rose or violet13, Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr, liturgical color red14, Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white15, Wednesday of the third week of Advent, liturgical color violet16, Thursday of the third week of Advent, liturgical color violet17, December 17, liturgical color violet18, December 18, liturgical color violet
19, Fourth Sunday of Advent, liturgical color violet20, December 20, liturgical color violet21, December 21, liturgical color violet22, December 22, liturgical color violet23, December 23, liturgical color violet24, December 24, liturgical color violet25, The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas), liturgical color white, Holy day of obligation (also a solemnity)
26, The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, liturgical color white27, Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist, liturgical color white28, The Holy Innocents, Martyrs, liturgical color red29, Fifth Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord, liturgical color white30, Sixth Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord, liturgical color white31, Seventh Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord, liturgical color white

Key

  • Violet
  • White
  • Rose
  • Red
  • ObligHoly day of obligation (also a solemnity)

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

A word for the day

There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?

The Rosary today

The Sorrowful Mysteries, prayed on Tuesday and Friday.

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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.