Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary · Memorial

Mass Readings for Saturday, November 21, 2026

On Saturday, November 21, 2026, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Cycle II); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Luke 20:27-40.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

White

Celebration: Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Season: Ordinary Time · Week 33
Rank: Memorial
Sunday cycle: Year A
Weekday cycle: Cycle II

Mass readings US

First Reading Revelation 11:4-12

4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing in the sight of the lord of the earth.
5And if anyone will want to harm them, fire shall go forth from their mouths, and it shall devour their enemies. And if anyone will want to wound them, so must he be slain.
6These have the power to close up the heavens, so that it may not rain during the days of their prophesying. And they have power over the waters, to convert them into blood, and to strike the earth with every kind of affliction as often as they will.
7And when they will have finished their testimony, the beast that ascended from the abyss will make war against them, and will overcome them, and will kill them.
8And their bodies shall lie in the streets of the Great City, which is figuratively called ‘Sodom’ and ‘Egypt,’ the place where their Lord also was crucified.
9And those from the tribes and peoples and languages and nations shall be watching their bodies for three and one half days. And they shall not permit their bodies to be placed in tombs.
10And the inhabitants of the earth will rejoice over them, and they will celebrate, and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tortured those who were living upon the earth.
11And after three and one half days, the spirit of life from God entered into them. And they stood upright on their feet. And a great fear fell over those who saw them.
12And they heard a great voice from heaven, saying to them, “Ascend to here!” And they ascended into heaven on a cloud. And their enemies saw them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Revelation 11

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 144:1, 2, 9-10

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 144 (143 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia See 2 Timothy 1:10

Read in the CPDV: 2 Timothy 1

Gospel Luke 20:27-40

27Now some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, approached him. And they questioned him,
28saying: “Teacher, Moses wrote for us: If any man’s brother will have died, having a wife, and if he does not have any children, then his brother should take her as his wife, and he should raise up offspring for his brother.
29And so there were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and he died without sons.
30And the next one married her, and he also died without a son.
31And the third married her, and similarly all seven, and none of them left behind any offspring, and they each died.
32Last of all, the woman also died.
33In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be? For certainly all seven had her as a wife.”
34And so, Jesus said to them: “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage.
35Yet truly, those who shall be held worthy of that age, and of the resurrection from the dead, will neither be married, nor take wives.
36For they can no longer die. For they are equal to the Angels, and they are children of God, since they are children of the resurrection.
37For in truth, the dead do rise again, as Moses also showed beside the bush, when he called the Lord: ‘The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
38And so he is not the God of the dead, but of the living. For all are alive to him.”
39Then some of the scribes, in response, said to him, “Teacher, you have spoken well.”
40And they no longer dared to question him about anything.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 20

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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