--- title: "Mass Readings for November 5, 2026 (Thursday) · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/05/ description: "November 5, 2026: Thursday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time, Year A, Cycle II, green. Philippians 3:3-8a; Psalm 105; Luke 15:1-10. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- 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. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color Green - **Celebration**: Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time - **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 31 - **Rank**: Weekday - **Sunday cycle**: Year A - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II ## Mass readings (US) ### First Reading: Philippians 3:3-8a - 3 For we are the circumcised, we who serve God in the Spirit and who glory in Christ Jesus, having no confidence in the flesh. - 4 Nevertheless, I might have confidence also in the flesh, for if anyone else seems to have confidence in the flesh, more so do I. - 5 For 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; - 6 according to zeal, I persecuted the Church of God; according to the justice that is in the law, I lived without blame. - 7 But the things which had been to my gain, the same have I considered a loss, for the sake of Christ. - 8 Yet 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 Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Philippians 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/philippians/3/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 105 (104 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/104/) ### Alleluia: Matthew 11:28 Read in the CPDV: [Matthew 11](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/11/) ### Gospel: Luke 15:1-10 - 1 Now tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him, so that they might listen to him. - 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This one accepts sinners and eats with them.” - 3 And 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? - 5 And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. - 6 And returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them: ‘Congratulate me! For I have found my sheep, which had been lost.’ - 7 I 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. - 8 Or 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? - 9 And 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.’ - 10 So I say to you, there will be joy before the Angels of God over even one sinner who is repentant.” Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Luke 15](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/15/) 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 [Sts. Zechariah and Elizabeth](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-zechariah-and-elizabeth/) Parents of John the Baptist · Remembered on November 5 [Read about Sts. Zechariah and Elizabeth](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-zechariah-and-elizabeth/) The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time). [November 2026, day by day](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/) [Liturgical calendar 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/) [Today in the Church](https://blessbible.app/today/) [Previous day Wed, Nov 4](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/04/) [Next day Fri, Nov 6](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/06/)