Daily readings

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Clement I. Ordinary Time. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.

CelebrationClement I

TypeOptional Memorial

SeasonOrdinary Time

Year2025 archive

The Roman Catholic readings for this date are shown below on-site. Use plain reading mode if you want clearer modern wording, or switch back to the original Douay-Rheims wording at any time.

Reading mode

Plain mode helps modern readers follow the text more easily.

On-site scripture text: Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Plain mode is a built-in reading aid that modernizes older wording for easier understanding while keeping the same Roman Catholic reading references for the day.

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First Reading

2 Samuel 5:1-3

How to approach it

Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.

1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Look we are your bone and your flesh.

3Moreover yesterday also and the day before, when Saul was king over us, you were he that did lead out and bring in Israel: and the Lord said to you: You shall feed my people Israel, and you shall be leader over Israel.

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Psalm

Psalm 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5

How to pray it

The psalm is meant to be prayed, not rushed. If the wording feels older, focus on the main movement of the prayer: trust, praise, sorrow, gratitude, or hope.

1I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.

2My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

3May he not suffer your foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth you.

4Look he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.

5The Lord is your keeper, the Lord is your protection upon your right hand.

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Second Reading

Colossians 1:12-20

How to read it

This reading often teaches Christians how to live with steadiness, charity, and faith. Look for one clear encouragement or warning you can carry into the day.

12Giving thanks to God the Father, who has made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:

13Who has rescued us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

14In whom we have rescue through his blood, the remission of sins;

15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

16For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and in him.

17And he is before all, and by him all things consist.

18And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:

19Because in him, it has well pleased the Father, that all fullness should dwell;

20And through him to reconcile all things to himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.

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Gospel

Luke 23:35-43

What to watch for

The Gospel is the center of the reading set. Pay close attention to what Jesus says, what Jesus does, and what response he is asking for.

35And the people stood beholding, and the rulers with them derided him, saying: He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the elect of God.

36And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

37And saying: If you be the king of the Jews, save yourself.

38And there was also a superscription written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

39And one of those robbers who were hanged, blasphemed him, saying: If you be Christ, save yourself and us.

40But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither do you fear God, seeing you art condemned under the same condemnation?

41And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done no evil.

42And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when you shall come into your kingdom.

43And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to you, this day you shall be with me in paradise.

Source note

This page uses the Catholic Readings API for the day's references and liturgical celebration data, while the on-site scripture text is rendered from the public-domain Douay-Rheims Bible distributed through the Open Bibles project.