First Sunday of Advent – November 29, 2026

⁷But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the giving of Christ.

⁸Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive; he gave gifts to men.

⁹Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

¹⁰He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

¹¹And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors,

¹²For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

¹³Until we all meet into the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ;

¹⁴That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive.

¹⁵But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ:

¹⁶From whom the whole body, being compacted and fitly joined together, by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in charity.

¹I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord.

²Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.

³Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.

⁴For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.

⁵Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David.

¹¹Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

¹And there were present, at that very time, some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

²And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such things?

³No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

⁴Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe, and slew them: think you, that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

⁵No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

⁶He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

⁷And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it done therefore: why cumbereth it the ground?

⁸But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it, and dung it.

⁹And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

¹⁶For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

¹⁷Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.

¹That thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

²They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the nations might tremble at thy presence.

³When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.

⁴From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.

⁵Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved.

⁶And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

⁷There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.

⁸And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

²Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth

³Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

¹⁵Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:

¹⁶And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

¹⁸Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

¹⁹And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.

³Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Christ Jesus,

⁵That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;

⁶As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,

⁷So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

³³Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is.

³⁴Even as a man who going into a far country, left his house; and gave authority to his servants over every work, and commanded the porter to watch.

³⁵Watch ye therefore, (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh: at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning,)

³⁶Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping.

³⁷And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.