--- title: "Titus: Summary & All 3 Chapters · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/ description: "The Letter to Titus, a pastoral letter in 3 chapters. Bp. Challoner’s summary of all 3 chapters, and the full text free." --- New Testament # The Letter to Titus The Letter to Titus is the seventeenth of the 27 books of the New Testament: 3 chapters and 46 verses. [Start reading: Titus 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/1/) [1](https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/1/) [2](https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/2/) [3](https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/3/) ## About Titus About Titus · Pastoral letter Titus is a short field manual addressed to Paul's delegate on Crete, a rough mission territory with a young, disorganized church: appoint worthy elders in every town, mute the troublemakers, and teach every age and station what sound living looks like. It belongs with the letters to Timothy, and shares both their authorship discussion and their conviction that doctrine and conduct are inseparable. It was written to show that grace itself is a teacher, training believers to renounce ungodliness — the loveliest summary of Christian formation in the pastorals. *Titus in Bless* | | | |---|---| | Testament | New Testament — book 17 of 27, 63 of 73 in the Bible | | Canon | Protocanonical (in every Christian canon) | | Chapters | 3 | | Verses | 46, as Bless numbers them | | Latin | Clementine Vulgate, every chapter | | Bp. Challoner | Summaries of all 3 chapters · 1 note | | Catechism | 13 paragraphs cite it | Chapter by chapter ## All 3 chapters, *in brief.* Bishop Richard Challoner’s summary of each chapter, from his revision of the Douay-Rheims (1749–52). Open a chapter for the full text. 1. ### [Titus 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/1/) 16 verses What kind of men he is to ordain priests. Some men are to be sharply rebuked. 2. ### [Titus 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/2/) 15 verses How he is to instruct both old and young. The duty of servants. The Christian's rule of life. 3. ### [Titus 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/3/) 15 verses Other instructions and directions for life and doctrine. Bp. Richard Challoner · chapter summaries Coming up ## Read at *Mass.* From October 29, 2026 to October 28, 2027, Titus is read at the principal Mass on 2 days in the US calendar. The next 5 readings: | Date | Celebration | Reading | Citation | |---|---|---|---| | [Tue, Nov 10, 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/10/) | St. Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church | First Reading | [Titus 2:1-8, 11-14](https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/2/) | | [Wed, Nov 11, 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/11/) | St. Martin of Tours, Bishop | First Reading | [Titus 3:1-7](https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/3/) | | [Mon, Nov 13, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/11/13/) computed | St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin | First Reading | [Titus 1:1-9](https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/1/) | | [Tue, Nov 14, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/11/14/) computed | Tuesday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [Titus 2:1-8, 11-14](https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/2/) | | [Wed, Nov 15, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/11/15/) computed | Wednesday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [Titus 3:1-7](https://blessbible.app/bible/titus/3/) | 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. [Previous book The Second Letter to Timothy](https://blessbible.app/bible/2-timothy/) [Next book The Letter to Philemon](https://blessbible.app/bible/philemon/)