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Friday, November 12, 2027

Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr

The liturgical day

Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr

Memorial
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Red

The Mass readings

First reading: Wisdom 13:1-9
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 19:2-3, 4-5ab
Gospel: Luke 17:26-37

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: Wisdom 13:1-9

Douay-Rheims: Wisdom 13:1-9

¹But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman: ²But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world. ³With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things. ⁴Or if they admired their power and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they: ⁵For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby. ⁶But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him. ⁷For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are persuaded that the things are good which are seen. ⁸But then again they are not to be pardoned. ⁹For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 19:2-3, 4-5ab

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 18:2-5 (Psalm 19 at Mass)

²The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands. ³Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge. ⁴There are no speeches nor languages, where their voices are not heard. ⁵Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.

Gospel: Luke 17:26-37

Douay-Rheims: Luke 17:26-37

²⁶And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. ²⁷They did eat and drink, they married wives, and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark: and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸Likewise as it came to pass, in the days of Lot: they did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built. ²⁹And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. ³⁰Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed. ³¹In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back. ³²Remember Lot’s wife. ³³Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it, shall preserve it. ³⁴I say to you: in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. ³⁵Two women shall be grinding together. The one shall be taken and the other shall be left. Two men shall be in the field. The one shall be taken and the other shall be left. ³⁶They answering, say to him: Where, Lord? ³⁷Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.

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 2027

November 2027
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1, All Saints, liturgical color white, Solemnity	2, The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls' Day), liturgical color violet or black, Solemnity	3, Wednesday of the thirty-first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	4, Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop, liturgical color white	5, Friday of the thirty-first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	6, Saturday of the thirty-first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
7, Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	8, Monday of the thirty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	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, Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	15, Monday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	16, Tuesday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	17, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious, liturgical color white	18, Thursday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	19, Friday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	20, Saturday of the thirty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
21, Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, liturgical color white, Solemnity	22, Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr, liturgical color red	23, Tuesday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	24, Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs, liturgical color red	25, Thursday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	26, Friday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	27, Saturday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
28, First Sunday of Advent, liturgical color violet	29, Monday of the first week of Advent, liturgical color violet	30, Saint Andrew, Apostle, liturgical color red

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Red
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Saint of the day

Saint Josaphat, Bishop and MartyrMemorial. Died in 1623.

A word for the day

Leave vain things to vain men, and mind thou the things which God hath commanded thee.

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 20. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

The Rosary today

The Sorrowful Mysteries, prayed on Tuesday and Friday.

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