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Week 32 of Ordinary Time

Thursday of the Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time

Thursday, November 12, 2026

Gospel for November 12, 2026.

Verse of the day

About today

Josaphat Kuncevyc (c. 1580–1623), a Basilian monk and bishop, labored for the unity of Orthodox and Catholic in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and was killed by a mob. The Church keeps his memorial on 12 November as a martyr for unity, not for a party. Blood was the price of a communion he would not abandon. Ask today for a love of the East and the West that will not treat schism as normal, and for the grace to seek one flock under one Shepherd.

Original – Prayer on Fire.

Gospel

Mass Lectionary · Gospel

Luke 17:20–25

Then he was questioned by the Pharisees: “When does the kingdom of God arrive?” And in response, he said to them: “The kingdom of God arrives unobserved. And so, they will not say, ‘Behold, it is here,’ or ‘Behold, it is there.’ For behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” And he said to his disciples: “The time will come when you will desire to see one day of the Son of man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, ‘Behold, he is here,’ and ‘Behold, he is there.’ Do not choose to go out, and do not follow them. For just as lightning flashes from under heaven and shines to whatever is under heaven, so also will the Son of man be in his day. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

Prayer on Fire Gospel Lesson

The Pharisees ask when the kingdom is coming. He says it is not coming in ways that can be observed. The kingdom of God is in the midst of you. Then he tells the disciples the days are coming when they will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and will not. Do not go out after the ones who say look here. First he must suffer and be rejected.

Where this sits

The feast of Josaphat reads this. The question is a demand for a timetable.

Not a spectacle

The kingdom is not a show you can point to. It is already in their midst, in him. The days of longing will come, and the answer to the false sightings is his suffering. The kingdom arrives through rejection, not through a visible takeover.

What to take

Stop looking for a sign you can schedule. He is the midst of it. The way to the day is through his rejection.

Original – Prayer on Fire

Gospel of the Day · Text: Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV) · Mass Lectionary · Gospel

The Mass of Saint Josaphat may also use this Gospel. (John 17:20–26)

Optional memorial Gospel

John 17:20–26

I am not praying for them only, but also for those who through their word shall believe in me. So may they all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me, and I am in you, so also may they be one in us: so that the world may believe that you have sent me. And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, so that they may be one, just as we also are one. I am in them, and you are in me. So may they be perfected as one. And may the world know that you have sent me and that you have loved them, just as you have also loved me. Father, I will that where I am, those whom you have given to me may also be with me, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me. For you loved me before the founding of the world. Father most just, the world has not known you. But I have known you. And these have known that you sent me. And I have made known your name to them, and I will make it known, so that the love in which you have loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.”

Not the weekday Gospel of the day · Text: Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV) · John 17:20–26

Weekday Gospel · Luke 17:20–25

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