Gospel: November 12, 2026

November 12, 2026 (Thursday)

32nd Week in Ordinary Time

Psalter: Week 4 (Red)

St. Josaphat, bishop & martyr

Ps 146:7, 8-9a, 9bc-10

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob.

1st Reading: Philemon 7-20

Gospel: Luke 17:20-25

The Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God was to come. He answered, “The kingdom of God is not like something you can observe, and say of it, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘See, there it is!’ for the kingdom of God is within you.”

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And Jesus said to his disciples, “The time is at hand, when you will long to see one of the glorious days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. Then people will tell you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do not go with them, do not follow them. As lightning flashes from one end of the sky to the other, so will it be with the Son of Man; but first he must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation.

Reflection:

Only with a heart can once see rightly.

The Pharisees fail to see that the in-breaking of the Kingdom is right before their eyes. They asked what the Kingdom of God looked like and the signs of its coming. They must have known what they were expecting. Thinking of a kingdom of the future, perhaps with the glitz of an earthly kingdom, they failed to recognize such an in-breaking in Jesus. Such external expectations were far from the person of Jesus standing right before them. Our expectations cloud our minds and lead us to frustration. They impede us from receiving the grace offered in the here and now. It may be offered in different ways, not in the manner that we expect, but it is the same gift of salvation that God offers us. This made me remember that famous line from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s best-selling book, “The Little Prince.” It says, “Only with a heart can one see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”