Daily readings

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Tuesday of the 20th week of Ordinary Time. Ordinary Time. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.

CelebrationTuesday of the 20th week of Ordinary Time

TypeWeekday

SeasonOrdinary Time

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.

1

First Reading

Ezekiel 28:1-10

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.

1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of Man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said: I am God, and T sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas you art a man, and not God: and have set your heart as if it were the heart of God.

3Look you art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from you.

4In your wisdom and your understanding you have made yourself strong: and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures.

5By the greatness of your wisdom, and by your traffic you have increased your strength: and your heart is lifted up with your strength.

6Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is lifted up as the heart of God:

7Therefore look, I will bring upon you strangers the strongest of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your beauty.

8They shall kill you, and bring you down: and you shall die the death of them that are killed in the heart of the sea.

9Will you yet say before them that kill you: I am God; whereas you art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that kill you?

10You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have said it, says the Lord God.

2

Psalm

Deuteronomy 32:26-27ab, 27cd-28, 30, 35cd-36ab

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.

30How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

3

Gospel

Matthew 19:23-30

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.

23Then Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

24And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

25And when they had heard this, the disciples wondered very much, saying: Who then can be saved?

26And Jesus beholding, said to them: With men this is impossible: but with God all things are possible.

27Then Peter answering, said to him: Look we have left all things, and have followed you: what therefore shall we have?

28And Jesus said to them: Amen, I say to you, that you, who have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man shall sit on the seat of his majesty, you also shall sit on twelve seats judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

29And every one that has left house, or brothers and sisters, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall have life eternal.

30And many that are first, shall be last: and the last shall be first.

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.