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Thursday, November 12, 2026

Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr

The liturgical day

Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr

Memorial
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Red

The Mass readings

First reading: Philemon 7-20
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 146:7, 8-9a, 9bc-10
Gospel: Luke 17:20-25

Read today's Mass readings on the USCCB site

The readings open on the USCCB website. They follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the United States, a different translation from the Douay-Rheims we use on this site. Desert Road Catholic is not affiliated with the USCCB.

First reading: Philemon 7-20

Douay-Rheims: Philemon 1:7-20

⁷For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother. ⁸Wherefore though I have much confidence in Christ Jesus, to command thee that which is to the purpose: ⁹For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as Paul an old man, and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ. ¹⁰I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bands, Onesimus, ¹¹Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable both to me and thee, ¹²Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels. ¹³Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered to me in the bands of the gospel: ¹⁴But without thy counsel I would do nothing: that thy good deed might not be as it were of necessity, but voluntary. ¹⁵For perhaps he therefore departed for a season from thee, that thou mightest receive him again for ever: ¹⁶Not now as a servant, but instead of a servant, a most dear brother, especially to me: but how much more to thee both in the flesh and in the Lord? ¹⁷If therefore thou count me a partner, receive him as myself. ¹⁸And if he hath wronged thee in any thing, or is in thy debt, put that to my account. ¹⁹I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee, that thou owest me thy own self also. ²⁰Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord. Refresh my bowels in the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 146:7, 8-9a, 9bc-10

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 145:7-10 (Psalm 146 at Mass)

⁷Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered: ⁸The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just. ⁹The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy. ¹⁰The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.

Gospel: Luke 17:20-25

Douay-Rheims: Luke 17:20-25

²⁰And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come? he answered them, and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: ²¹Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there. For lo, the kingdom of God is within you. ²²And he said to his disciples: The days will come, when you shall desire to see one day of the Son of man; and you shall not see it. ²³And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them: ²⁴For as the lightning that lighteneth from under heaven shineth unto the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day. ²⁵But first he must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation.

The same passages in the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), the translation we use on this site. The words read at Mass come from the Lectionary for Mass and differ. Where a reading begins or ends partway through a verse, the whole verse is shown. For the official text, open the readings on the USCCB site.

November 2026

November 2026
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9, The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, liturgical color white	10, Saint Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white	11, Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop, liturgical color white	12, Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr, liturgical color red, this page	13, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin, liturgical color white	14, Saturday of the thirty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
15, Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	16, Monday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	17, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious, liturgical color white	18, Wednesday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	19, Thursday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	20, Friday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	21, The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, liturgical color white
22, Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, liturgical color white, Solemnity	23, Monday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	24, Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs, liturgical color red	25, Wednesday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	26, Thursday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	27, Friday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	28, Saturday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
29, First Sunday of Advent, liturgical color violet	30, Saint Andrew, Apostle, liturgical color red

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Saint of the day

Saint Josaphat, Bishop and MartyrMemorial. Died in 1623.

A word for the day

Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Saint Augustine, Confessions, Book I, 1. Translated by E. B. Pusey. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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