Readings for
November 23, 2026
Monday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Day
Reading I
Revelation 14:1-3, 4-5
1Then I looked and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
2I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of rushing water or a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps.
3They were singing [what seemed to be] a new hymn before the throne, before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn this hymn except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been ransomed from the earth.
4These are they who were not defiled with women; they are virgins and these are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed as the firstfruits of the human race for God and the Lamb.
5On their lips no deceit has been found; they are unblemished. The Three Angels.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
1Psalm 24 The Glory of God in Procession to Zion - A psalm of David. I - The earth is the LORD’s and all it holds, the world and those who dwell in it.
2For he founded it on the seas, established it over the rivers.
3II - Who may go up the mountain of the LORD? Who can stand in his holy place?
4“The clean of hand and pure of heart, who has not given his soul to useless things, what is vain.
5He will receive blessings from the LORD, and justice from his saving God.
6Such is the generation that seeks him, that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.” Selah
Alleluia
Matthew 24:42, 44
42Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.
44So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come. The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant.
Gospel
Luke 21:1-4
1When he looked up he saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury
2and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins.
3He said, “I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest;
4for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood.” The Destruction of the Temple Foretold.