Go to today's readings

Daily Readings - 26/11/2026

THURSDAY OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, feria

Ordinary Time Week XXXIV Green

First Reading : Rv 18, 1-2. 21-23; 19, 1-3. 9a

No se encontró el libro para la sigla: Rv

Psalm : Ps 99

R. Blessed are those called to the wedding feast of the Lamb.

God, righteous and holy king

99:1 Yahweh is king, the nations tremble; he is enthroned on the cherubs, earth quakes;

99:2 Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high over all nations;

99:3 may they praise your great and terrible name, ‘Holy is he,

99:4 and mighty!’ You are a king who loves justice, insisting on honesty, justice, virtue, as you have done for Jacob.

99:5 Let us extol Yahweh our God, and worship at his footstool, ‘Holy is he!’

99:6 Moses, Aaron one of his priests, and Samuel his votary, all invoked Yahweh: and he answered them.

99:7 He talked with them in the pillar of cloud; they obeyed his decrees, the Law he gave them.

99:8 Yahweh our God, you responded to them, a God of forgiveness for them, in spite of punishing their sins.

99:9 Extol Yahweh our God, worship at his holy mountain, ‘Holy is Yahweh our God!’

Gospel : Lk 21, 20-28

The siege

21:20 ‘When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you must realise that she will soon be laid desolate.

21:21 Then those in Judaea must escape to the mountains, those inside the city must leave it, and those in country districts must not take refuge in it.

21:22 For this is the time of vengeance when all that scripture says[*b] must be fulfilled.

21:23 Alas for those with child, or with babies at the breast, when those days come!

‘For great misery will descend on the land and wrath on this people.

21:24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive to every pagan country; and Jerusalem will be trampled down by the pagans until the age of the pagans is completely over.

Cosmic disasters and the coming of the Son of Man

21:25 ‘There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; on earth nations in agony, bewildered by the clamour of the ocean and its waves;

21:26 men dying of fear as they await what menaces the world, for the powers of heaven will be shaken.

21:27 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

21:28 When these things begin to take place, stand erect, hold your heads high, because your liberation[*c] is near at hand.’