Daily readings

Saturday, November 21, 2026

Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Ordinary Time. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.

CelebrationPresentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary

TypeMemorial

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

Psalm

Psalm 144:1, 2, 9-10

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.

1Hear, OH Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in your truth: hear me in your righteousness.

2And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight no man living shall be justified.

9Deliver me from my enemies, OH Lord, to you have I fled:

10teach me to do your will, for you art my God. Your good spirit shall lead me into the right land:

2

Gospel

Luke 20:27-40

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.

27And there came to him some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, and they asked him,

28Saying: Master, Moses wrote to us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he leave no children, that his brother should take her to wife, and raise up offspring to his brother.

29There were therefore seven brothers and sisters: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

30And the next took her to wife, and he also died childless.

31And the third took her. And in like manner all the seven, and they left no children, and died.

32Last of all the woman died also.

33In the resurrection therefore, whose wife of them shall she be? For all the seven had her to wife.

34And Jesus said to them: The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

35But those who shall be accounted worthy of that world, and of the resurrection from the dead, shall neither be married, nor take wives.

36Neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels, and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

37Now that the dead rise again, Moses also showed, at the bush, when he called the Lord, The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

38For he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.

39And some of the teachers of the law answering, said to him: Master, you have said well.

40And after that they durst not ask him any more questions.

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.