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Sunday, 8 November 2026

32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time · Green

Readings for the universal ChurchGeneral Roman Calendar, used by Catholics worldwide

First Reading

Wisdom 6:12-16

12Covet ye therefore my words, and love them, and you shall have instruction. 13Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away, and is easily seen by them that love her, and is found by them that seek her. 14She preventeth them that covet her, so that she first sheweth herself unto them. 15He that awaketh early to seek her, shall not labour: for he shall find her sitting at his door. 16To think therefore upon her, is perfect understanding: and he that watcheth for her, shall quickly be secure.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8

2O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

3In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory.

4For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips shall praise.

5Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands.

6Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.

7If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in the morning:

8Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the covert of thy wings:

Second Reading

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

13For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again; even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him. 14For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept. 15For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven with commandment, and with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead who are in Christ, shall rise first. 16Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air, and so shall we be always with the Lord. 17Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.

Gospel

Matthew 25:1-13

1Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. 2And five of them were foolish, and five wise. 3But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them: 4But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps. 5And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept. 6And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye forth to meet him. 7Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. 9The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us and for you, go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 10Now whilst they went to buy, the bridegroom came: and they that were ready, went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut. 11But at last come also the other virgins, saying: Lord, Lord, open to us. 12But he answering said: Amen I say to you, I know you not. 13Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

Same readings worldwide and in the United States.

Text: Douay-Rheims (public domain). Reading citations: cpbjr/catholic-readings-api (MIT license). The Lectionary text used at Mass in the United States is the NABRE, which you can read at USCCB.