This Week · Advent Season · All Four Lectionaries
This week’s readings 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 Second Sunday in Advent. No reading is common to all four.
| 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 Second Sunday in AdventOne-year · Dec 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel3 of 4 read Mark 1 | Mark 1:1-8 | Mark 1:1-8 | Mark 1:1-8 | Luke 21:25-36 |
| Epistle / Second Reading3 of 4 read 2 Peter 3 | 2 Peter 3:8-15a | 2 Peter 3:8-14 | 2 Peter 3:8-14 | Romans 15:4-13 |
| Old Testament / First Reading3 of 4 read Isaiah 40 | Isaiah 40:1-11 | Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 | Isaiah 40:1-11 | Malachi 4:1-6 |
| Psalm3 of 4 read Psalm 85 | Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 | Psalm 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14 (8) | Psalm 85 | Psalm 50:1-15 |
This page is permanent: it shows the same readings every time this day comes round. In the current year it falls on December 6, 2026.
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. This page always shows the current week and updates each Sunday.
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