--- title: "Mass Readings for October 22, 2026 (Thursday) · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/10/22/ description: "October 22, 2026: Thursday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time, Year A, Cycle II, green. Ephesians 3:14-21; Psalm 33; Luke 12:49-53. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- 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 ## The liturgical day 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 - 14 By reason of this grace, I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, - 15 from whom all paternity in heaven and on earth takes its name. - 16 And 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, - 17 so that Christ may live in your hearts through a faith rooted in, and founded on, charity. - 18 So may you be able to embrace, with all the saints, what is the width and length and height and depth - 19 of 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. - 20 Now 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: - 21 to 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](https://blessbible.app/bible/ephesians/3/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 18-19 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 33 (32 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/32/) ### Alleluia: Philippians 3:8-9 Read in the CPDV: [Philippians 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/philippians/3/) ### Gospel: Luke 12:49-53 - 49 I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled? - 50 And I have a baptism, with which I am to be baptized. And how I am constrained, even until it may be accomplished! - 51 Do you think that I have come to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division. - 52 For from this time on, there will be five in one house: divided as three against two, and as two against three. - 53 A 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](https://blessbible.app/bible/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. Spotted a wrong date, color or citation? [Report an error](https://blessbible.app/support/#report) and we’ll fix it in the app and here. ## Saint of the day [St. John Paul II](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-paul-ii/) Pope · Remembered on October 22 [Read about St. John Paul II](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-paul-ii/) The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time). [October 2026, day by day](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/10/) [Liturgical calendar 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/) [Today in the Church](https://blessbible.app/today/) [Previous day Wed, Oct 21](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/10/21/) [Next day Fri, Oct 23](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/10/23/)