Daily Mass Readings
December 26, 2026 — Saturday
Saint Stephen, The First Martyr (Feast)
Season: Christmas
First Reading
Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59
Read this passage at the USCCB daily readings page.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 31:3cd-4, 6 and 8ab, 16bc and 17
3For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
4Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
6I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
8And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
16Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.
17Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
Text shown in KJV (public domain).
Gospel
Matthew 10:17-22
17But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
18And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
19But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
20For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
21And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Text shown in KJV (public domain).
The readings proclaimed at Mass in the United States follow the NABRE Lectionary. Read today's official text at USCCB →
Verse text shown from public-domain translations (KJV; Douay-Rheims chain for deuterocanonical books). The text proclaimed at Mass in the United States is the NABRE Lectionary — read it at the USCCB link.