Thursday, 10 December 2026

The liturgical day and the Mass readings.

Advent · Year B

Vestment: Violet

Thursday of the second week of Advent

Weekday

Feria quinta, hebdomada secunda Adventus

Saint / Celebration of the DayOptional memorial

Our Lady of Loreto

B. Mariæ Virginis de Loreto

Our Lady of Loreto is solemnly commemorated today in the Roman Catholic Church and the sacred liturgy. The Church honours their heroic faith, steadfast love for Jesus Christ, and exemplary Christian virtue as an inspiring model and heavenly intercessor for all believers.

Through their prayers and intercession, we ask Almighty God for grace, healing, purity of heart, and perseverance in our daily Christian journey.

Source: Roman Martyrology & General Roman Calendar

Also today

Our Lady of Loreto
Optional memorial · may be celebrated at the priest's choice

Daily Mass Readings

✓ Live Daily Lectionary (2026-12-10)

First Reading

Isa 41,13-20.

I am the LORD, your God, who grasp your right hand; It is I who say to you, "Fear not, I will help you."

Fear not, O worm Jacob, O maggot Israel; I will help you, says the LORD; your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

I will make of you a threshing sledge, sharp, new, and double-edged, To thresh the mountains and crush them, to make the hills like chaff.

When you winnow them, the wind shall carry them off and the storm shall scatter them. But you shall rejoice in the LORD, and glory in the Holy One of Israel.

The afflicted and the needy seek water in vain, their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

I will open up rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the broad valleys; I will turn the desert into a marshland, and the dry ground into springs of water.

I will plant in the desert the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive; I will set in the wasteland the cypress, together with the plane tree and the pine,

That all may see and know, observe and understand, That the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.

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Responsorial Psalm

Ps 145(144),1.9.10-11.12-13ab.

I will extol you, O my God and King, and I will bless your name forever and ever.

The LORD is good to all and compassionate toward all his works.

Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD, and let your faithful ones bless you.

Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom and speak of your might.

Making known to men your might and the glorious splendor of your Kingdom.

Your Kingdom is a Kingdom for all ages,

and your dominion endures through all generations.

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Second Reading

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Holy Gospel

Matt 11,11-15.

Jesus said to the crowds: "Amen, I say to you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent are taking it by force.

All the prophets and the law prophesied up to the time of John.

And if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah, the one who is to come.

Whoever has ears ought to hear."

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Calendar: General Roman Calendar. Celebrations proper to Nigeria, the Diocese of Abakaliki or the chaplaincy are celebrated as appointed.