Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday
Mass Readings for Thursday, November 5, 2026
On Thursday, November 5, 2026, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle II); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Luke 15:1-10.
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Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
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Ordinary Time · Week 31
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Cycle II
Mass readings US
First ReadingPhilippians 3:3-8a
3For we are the circumcised, we who serve God in the Spirit and who glory in Christ Jesus, having no confidence in the flesh.
4Nevertheless, I might have confidence also in the flesh, for if anyone else seems to have confidence in the flesh, more so do I.
5For I was circumcised on the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, from the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew among Hebrews. According to the law, I was a Pharisee;
6according to zeal, I persecuted the Church of God; according to the justice that is in the law, I lived without blame.
7But the things which had been to my gain, the same have I considered a loss, for the sake of Christ.
8Yet truly, I consider everything to be a loss, because of the preeminent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of everything, considering it all to be like dung, so that I may gain Christ,
Catholic Public Domain Version · part-verses shown as whole verses
1Now tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him, so that they might listen to him.
2And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This one accepts sinners and eats with them.”
3And he told this parable to them, saying:
4“What man among you, who has one hundred sheep, and if he will have lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the one whom he had lost, until he finds it?
5And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
6And returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them: ‘Congratulate me! For I have found my sheep, which had been lost.’
7I say to you, that there will be so much more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, than over the ninety-nine just, who do not need to repent.
8Or what woman, having ten drachmas, if she will have lost one drachma, would not light a candle, and sweep the house, and diligently search until she finds it?
9And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying: ‘Rejoice with me! For I have found the drachma, which I had lost.’
10So I say to you, there will be joy before the Angels of God over even one sinner who is repentant.”
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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