Daily readings

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Easter Thursday. Eastertide. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.

CelebrationEaster Thursday

TypeSolemnity

SeasonEastertide

Year2026 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

Acts 3:11-26

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.

11And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran to them to the porch which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

12But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: You men of Israel, why wonder you at this? or why look you upon us, as if by our strength or power we had made this man to walk?

13The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed rescued up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he should be released.

14But you denied the Holy One and the Righteous, and desired a murderer to be granted to you.

15But the author of life you killed, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are people giving testimony.

16And in the faith of his name, this man, whom you have seen and known, has his name strengthened; and the faith which is by him, has given this perfect soundness before you all.

17And now, brothers and sisters, I know that you did it through ignorance, as did also your rulers.

18But those things which God before had showed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled.

19Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.

20That when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of the Lord, and he shall send him who has been preached to you, Jesus Christ,

21Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the restitution of all things, which God has said by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the start of the world.

22For Moses said: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you of your brothers and sisters, like to me: him you shall hear according to all things whatever he shall speak to you.

23And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

24And all the prophets, from Samuel and afterwards, who have said, have told of these days.

25You are the children of the prophets, and of the testament which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in your offspring shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

26To you first God, raising up his Son, has sent him to bless you; that every one may convert himself from his evil.

2

Psalm

Psalm 8:2ab and 5, 6-7, 8-9

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.

6You have made him a little less than the angels, you have crowned him with glory and honour:

7and have set him over the works of your hands.

8You have subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields.

9The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

3

Gospel

Luke 24:35-48

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 they told what things were done in the way; and how they knew him in the breaking of the bread.

36Now whilst they were speaking these things, Jesus stood in the midst of them, and says to them: Peace be to you; it is I, fear not.

37But they being troubled and frightened, supposed that they saw a spirit.

38And he said to them: Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

39See my hands and feet, that it is I myself; handle, and see: for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see me to have.

40And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet.

41But while they yet believed not, and wondered for joy, he said: Have you any thing to eat?

42And they offered him a piece of a broiled fish, and a honeycomb.

43And when he had eaten before them, taking the remains, he gave to them.

44And he said to them: These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

45Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.

46And he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead, the third day:

47And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

48And you are people giving testimony of these things.

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.