Readings for the day · Advent Season · All Four Lectionaries
The readings for December 6, 2026, in all four lectionaries
Revised Common and Roman Catholic keep Second Sunday of Advent; LSB Three-Year keeps Second Sunday in Advent; Historic One-Year keeps The Twenty-Seventh Sunday after Trinity. All four agree on the Psalm.
| Reading | Revised CommonSecond Sunday of AdventYear B · Dec 6 | Roman CatholicSecond Sunday of AdventYear B · Dec 6 | LSB Three-YearSecond Sunday in AdventYear B · Dec 6 | Historic One-YearThe Twenty-Seventh Sunday after TrinityOne-year · Dec 6also The Second Sunday in Advent |
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| Gospel3 of 4 read Mark 1 | Mark 1:1-8 | Mark 1:1-8 | Mark 1:1-8 | Matthew 25:31-46 |
| Epistle / Second Reading3 of 4 read 2 Peter 3 | 2 Peter 3:8-15a | 2 Peter 3:8-14 | 2 Peter 3:8-14 | 2 Thessalonians 1:3-10 |
| Old Testament / First Reading3 of 4 read Isaiah 40 | Isaiah 40:1-11 | Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 | Isaiah 40:1-11 | Malachi 3:14-18 |
| PsalmAll read Psalm 85 | Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 | Psalm 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14 (8) | Psalm 85 | not appointed |
More than one service is appointed on this date. The table shows the first of each tradition’s; the others are linked under the column they belong to.
Every citation above opens its own page: the passage, verse-by-verse commentary, background and word study, the Church Fathers, and worship resources. An “or” line is the second track a lectionary offers for the same day, not a different Sunday. Agreement is judged by chapter, because the four rarely cut a passage to the same length.
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