Daily Reading for Tuesday, November 17th, 2026

Reading 1, Revelation 3:1-6, 14-22

¹⁴ His head and his hair were white with the whiteness of wool, like snow, his eyes like a burning flame,

¹⁵ his feet like burnished bronze when it has been refined in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of the ocean.

¹⁶ In his right hand he was holding seven stars, out of his mouth came a sharp sword, double-edged, and his face was like the sun shining with all its force.

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead, but he laid his right hand on me and said, 'Do not be afraid; it is I, the First and the Last; I am the Living One,

¹⁸ I was dead and look -- I am alive for ever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and of Hades.

¹⁹ Now write down all that you see of present happenings and what is still to come.

²⁰ The secret of the seven stars you have seen in my right hand, and of the seven golden lamp-stands, is this: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp-stands are the seven churches themselves.'

¹ 'Write to the angel of the church in Sardis and say, "Here is the message of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know about your behaviour: how you are reputed to be alive and yet are dead.

² Wake up; put some resolve into what little vigour you have left: it is dying fast. So far I have failed to notice anything in your behaviour that my God could possibly call perfect;

³ remember how you first heard the message. Hold on to that. Repent! If you do not wake up, I shall come to you like a thief, and you will have no idea at what hour I shall come upon you.

⁴ There are a few in Sardis, it is true, who have kept their robes unstained, and they are fit to come with me, dressed in white.

⁵ Anyone who proves victorious will be dressed, like these, in white robes; I shall not blot that name out of the book of life, but acknowledge it in the presence of my Father and his angels.

⁶ Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 15:2-3, 3-4, 5

² Whoever lives blamelessly, who acts uprightly, who speaks the truth from the heart,

³ who keeps the tongue under control, who does not wrong a comrade, who casts no discredit on a neighbour,

⁴ who looks with scorn on the vile, but honours those who fear Yahweh, who stands by an oath at any cost,

⁵ who asks no interest on loans, who takes no bribe to harm the innocent. No one who so acts can ever be shaken.