diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9481299cb..8e73f560a 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #3220: KeyError when having a duplicate citation
 * #3200: LaTeX: xref inside desc_name not allowed
 * #3228: ``build_sphinx`` command crashes when missing dependency
+* #2469: Ignore updates of catalog files for gettext builder. Thanks to
+  Hiroshi Ohkubo.
 
 
 Release 1.5 (released Dec 5, 2016)
diff --git a/sphinx/application.py b/sphinx/application.py
index baca1c8f1..00661aa61 100644
--- a/sphinx/application.py
+++ b/sphinx/application.py
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ class Sphinx(object):
         if freshenv:
             self.env = BuildEnvironment(self.srcdir, self.doctreedir, self.config)
             self.env.set_warnfunc(self.warn)
-            self.env.find_files(self.config)
+            self.env.find_files(self.config, self.buildername)
             for domain in self.domains.keys():
                 self.env.domains[domain] = self.domains[domain](self.env)
         else:
diff --git a/sphinx/environment/__init__.py b/sphinx/environment/__init__.py
index f5cd1550b..0f978e42e 100644
--- a/sphinx/environment/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinx/environment/__init__.py
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ class BuildEnvironment(object):
             enc_rel_fn = rel_fn.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
             return rel_fn, path.abspath(path.join(self.srcdir, enc_rel_fn))
 
-    def find_files(self, config):
+    def find_files(self, config, buildername=None):
         """Find all source files in the source dir and put them in
         self.found_docs.
         """
@@ -397,16 +397,23 @@ class BuildEnvironment(object):
             else:
                 self.warn(docname, "document not readable. Ignored.")
 
-        # add catalog mo file dependency
-        for docname in self.found_docs:
-            catalog_files = find_catalog_files(
-                docname,
-                self.srcdir,
-                self.config.locale_dirs,
-                self.config.language,
-                self.config.gettext_compact)
-            for filename in catalog_files:
-                self.dependencies.setdefault(docname, set()).add(filename)
+        # Current implementation is applying translated messages in the reading
+        # phase.Therefore, in order to apply the updated message catalog, it is
+        # necessary to re-process from the reading phase. Here, if dependency
+        # is set for the doc source and the mo file, it is processed again from
+        # the reading phase when mo is updated. In the future, we would like to
+        # move i18n process into the writing phase, and remove these lines.
+        if buildername != 'gettext':
+            # add catalog mo file dependency
+            for docname in self.found_docs:
+                catalog_files = find_catalog_files(
+                    docname,
+                    self.srcdir,
+                    self.config.locale_dirs,
+                    self.config.language,
+                    self.config.gettext_compact)
+                for filename in catalog_files:
+                    self.dependencies.setdefault(docname, set()).add(filename)
 
     def get_outdated_files(self, config_changed):
         """Return (added, changed, removed) sets."""
@@ -488,7 +495,7 @@ class BuildEnvironment(object):
         # the source and doctree directories may have been relocated
         self.srcdir = srcdir
         self.doctreedir = doctreedir
-        self.find_files(config)
+        self.find_files(config, app.buildername)
         self.config = config
 
         # this cache also needs to be updated every time
diff --git a/tests/test_intl.py b/tests/test_intl.py
index 68fae6b15..4a517c111 100644
--- a/tests/test_intl.py
+++ b/tests/test_intl.py
@@ -367,6 +367,15 @@ def test_gettext_builder(app, status, warning):
     for expect_msg in [m for m in expect if m.id]:
         yield assert_in, expect_msg.id, [m.id for m in actual if m.id]
 
+    # --- don't rebuild by .mo mtime
+    app.builder.build_update()
+    updated = app.env.update(app.config, app.srcdir, app.doctreedir, app)
+    yield assert_equal, len(updated), 0
+
+    (app.srcdir / 'xx' / 'LC_MESSAGES' / 'bom.mo').utime(None)
+    updated = app.env.update(app.config, app.srcdir, app.doctreedir, app)
+    yield assert_equal, len(updated), 0
+
 
 @gen_with_intl_app('html', freshenv=True)
 def test_html_builder(app, status, warning):