Catholic Mass Readings and Reflection November 13, 2026
Friday – 32nd Week of Ordinary Time
13th November 2026 (Friday)
Psalter: Week 4
Here are the Catholic Mass readings and a daily Gospel reflection for Friday, November 13, 2026, the Memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini. John urges us to walk in love and truth, and Jesus warns that the day of the Son of Man will come in the middle of ordinary life.
Catholic Mass Readings
Readings of the Day
First Reading: 2 John 1:4-9
I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father. And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it. For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward. Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
Psalm 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18 (R. 1b)
R/. Blessed are those who walk in the law of the Lord!
Gospel Acclamation
V/. Alleluia
R/. Alleluia
V/. Straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near
R/. Alleluia
Gospel: Luke 17:26-37
At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, “As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back. Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.” And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”
Friday – 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
Daily Gospel Reflection
Main Point: In the days of Noah, people were eating, drinking, and marrying, right up to the flood. Nothing wrong with any of it. Jesus warns that the danger is not wickedness. It is being so absorbed in ordinary life that we never look up.
1. They were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, buying and selling, planting and building. Jesus is describing the days of Noah and the days of Lot. He is also describing an ordinary week in any city on earth.
2. He does not say those things are evil. Meals, weddings, work, and homes are good gifts. The problem is that the people were so busy with them that the flood came and swept them away. They never once looked up.
3. Then Jesus says three short words: Remember Lot’s wife. She was being led out of a city about to be destroyed, and she turned to look back at what she was leaving. She could not let go. And she was lost.
4. Most of us know a version of that backward look. The old habit we keep returning to. The life we left behind in our hearts, even after we left it with our feet. The comfort we cannot release when God is leading us somewhere new.
5. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, Jesus says, and whoever loses his life will keep it. This is not a call to fear. It is a call to wake up, to live our ordinary days with our faces turned toward Christ who is coming.
6. Frances Xavier Cabrini did not look back. Born in Italy, she longed to be a missionary, and she crossed the ocean to the United States in 1889 to serve poor Italian immigrants. She founded schools, orphanages, and hospitals, and became the first United States citizen to be canonized. She left one home and never stopped walking toward the next.
My Practice: You might name one thing you keep looking back to, a habit, a resentment, a comfort that holds you, and give it to God in prayer today. Then take one small step forward without turning around.
Prayer
Lord Jesus, You warn us not to be so absorbed in eating, buying, and building that we forget to look up for You. Wake us from that sleep. Free us from the backward look of Lot’s wife, from habits and comforts that hold us when You are leading us forward. Give us the courage of Saint Frances Cabrini, who left her homeland to serve migrants and the poor. Help us walk in love and truth, as John urges, with our faces turned toward You. Amen.
Question to Reflect Today
- What do you keep looking back to, even after God has led you away from it?
Amen 🙏🙏🙏
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