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# Revelation 5

Revelation 5 is chapter 5 of 22 in Revelation. Here are all 14 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The book sealed with seven seals is opened by the Lamb, who thereupon receives adoration and praise from all.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Revelation 5 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And in the right hand of the One sitting upon the throne, I saw a book, written inside and out, sealed with seven seals.
2. And I saw a strong Angel, proclaiming with a great voice, “Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals?”
3. And no one was able, neither in heaven, nor on earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to gaze upon it.
4. And I wept greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book, nor to see it.
5. And one of the elders said to me: “Weep not. Behold, the lion from the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the book and to break its seven seals.”
6. And I saw, and behold, in the midst of the throne and the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb was standing, as if it were slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God, sent forth to all the earth.
7. And he approached and received the book from the right hand of the One sitting upon the throne.
8. And when he had opened the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having stringed instruments, as well as golden bowls full of fragrances, which are the prayers of the saints.
9. And they were singing a new canticle, saying: “O Lord, you are worthy to receive the book and to open its seals, because you were slain and have redeemed us for God, by your blood, from every tribe and language and people and nation.
10. And you have made us into a kingdom and into priests for our God, and we shall reign over the earth.”
11. And I saw, and I heard the voice of many Angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders, (and their number was thousands of thousands)
12. saying with a great voice: “The Lamb who was slain is worthy to receive power, and divinity, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.”
13. And every creature that is in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and all that is within the sea: I heard them all saying: “To the One sitting upon the throne and to the Lamb be blessing, and honor, and glory, and authority, forever and ever.”
14. And the four living creatures were saying, “Amen.” And the twenty-four elders fell down on their faces, and they adored the One who lives forever and ever.

## Revelation 5 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et vidi in dextera sedentis supra thronum, librum scriptum intus et foris, signatum sigillis septem.
2. Et vidi angelum fortem, prædicantem voce magna: Quis est dignus aperire librum, et solvere signacula ejus?
3. Et nemo poterat neque in cælo, neque in terra, neque subtus terram aperire librum, neque respicere illum.
4. Et ego flebam multum, quoniam nemo dignus inventus est aperire librum, nec videre eum.
5. Et unus de senioribus dixit mihi: Ne fleveris: ecce vicit leo de tribu Juda, radix David, aperire librum, et solvere septem signacula ejus.
6. Et vidi: et ecce in medio throni et quatuor animalium, et in medio seniorum, Agnum stantem tamquam occisum, habentem cornua septem, et oculos septem: qui sunt septem spiritus Dei, missi in omnem terram.
7. Et venit: et accepit de dextera sedentis in throno librum.
8. Et cum aperuisset librum, quatuor animalia, et viginti quatuor seniores ceciderunt coram Agno, habentes singuli citharas, et phialas aureas plenas odoramentorum, quæ sunt orationes sanctorum:
9. et cantabant canticum novum, dicentes: Dignus es, Domine, accipere librum, et aperire signacula ejus: quoniam occisus es, et redemisti nos Deo in sanguine tuo ex omni tribu, et lingua, et populo, et natione:
10. et fecisti nos Deo nostro regnum, et sacerdotes: et regnabimus super terram.
11. Et vidi, et audivi vocem angelorum multorum in circuitu throni, et animalium, et seniorum: et erat numerus eorum millia millium,
12. dicentium voce magna: Dignus est Agnus, qui occisus est, accipere virtutem, et divinitatem, et sapientiam, et fortitudinem, et honorem, et gloriam, et benedictionem.
13. Et omnem creaturam, quæ in cælo est, et super terram, et sub terra, et quæ sunt in mari, et quæ in eo: omnes audivi dicentes: Sedenti in throno, et Agno, benedictio et honor, et gloria, et potestas in sæcula sæculorum.
14. Et quatuor animalia dicebant: Amen. Et viginti quatuor seniores ceciderunt in facies suas: et adoraverunt viventem in sæcula sæculorum.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1137: Who Celebrates? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2642: Prayer of Praise ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1546: The Sacrament of Holy Orders in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 449: Lord ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2855: The Final Doxology ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.” — St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Last Conversations, 1897 (On this theme: verse 8)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 8: Here we see that the saints in heaven offer up to Christ the prayers of the faithful upon earth.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Nov 19, 2026: Thursday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Revelation 5:1-10
- Sun, Apr 30, 2028 (computed): Third Sunday of Easter — Second Reading, Revelation 5:11-14
- Thu, Nov 23, 2028 (computed): Thanksgiving Day — First Reading, Revelation 5:1-10

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).