Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

Mass Readings for Thursday, October 22, 2026

On Thursday, October 22, 2026, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle II); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Luke 12:49-53.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

Green

Celebration: Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Season: Ordinary Time · Week 29
Rank: Weekday
Sunday cycle: Year A
Weekday cycle: Cycle II

Mass readings US

First Reading Ephesians 3:14-21

14By reason of this grace, I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15from whom all paternity in heaven and on earth takes its name.
16And I ask him to grant to you to be strengthened in virtue by his Spirit, in accord with the wealth of his glory, in the inner man,
17so that Christ may live in your hearts through a faith rooted in, and founded on, charity.
18So may you be able to embrace, with all the saints, what is the width and length and height and depth
19of the charity of Christ, and even be able to know that which surpasses all knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20Now to him who is able to do all things, more abundantly than we could ever ask or understand, by means of the virtue which is at work in us:
21to him be glory, in the Church and in Christ Jesus, throughout every generation, forever and ever. Amen.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Ephesians 3

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 18-19

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 33 (32 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia Philippians 3:8-9

Read in the CPDV: Philippians 3

Gospel Luke 12:49-53

49I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled?
50And I have a baptism, with which I am to be baptized. And how I am constrained, even until it may be accomplished!
51Do you think that I have come to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.
52For from this time on, there will be five in one house: divided as three against two, and as two against three.
53A father will be divided against a son, and a son against his father; a mother against a daughter and a daughter against a mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 12

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar.

In US parishes the readings are proclaimed from the NABRE; the text shown here is the Catholic Public Domain Version.

Old Testament readings and the psalm are listed with a link to their chapter: the US Lectionary numbers some of their verses differently from the CPDV, so their text is not printed here. Psalm citations keep the Lectionary’s Hebrew numbering; the CPDV numbers the Psalms as the Vulgate does.

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Saint of the day

St. John Paul II

Pope · Remembered on October 22

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