Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, February 19 2026

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

Book of Deuteronomy

Moses said to the people: "Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom.
If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy.
If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are led astray and adore and serve other gods,
I tell you now that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy.
I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live,
by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which the LORD swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."

Psalms

Blessed the man who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.
He is like a tree
planted near running water,
that yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves never fade.
Whatever he does, prospers.
Not so, the wicked, not so;
they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked vanishes.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

Jesus said to his disciples: "The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised."
Then he said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?"

St. Barbatus(Bishop († 682))

SAINT BARBATUS Bishop (+ 682) St. Barbatus was born in Benevento, Italy, toward the end of St. Gregory the Great's pontificate. His progress was so remarkable that he received Holy Orders as soon as the canons of the Church allowed it. Barbatus was at firstemployed by the bishop in preaching; but when his efforts to reform a cadre of parishioners from St. Basil's in Morcona failed, he returned to Benevento. Benevento's citizens practiced idolatry and superstition, which were endorsed by the duke, Prince Romuald. Romuald was the son of Grimoald, the king of the Lombards, who had edified all Christians by his conversion. Unfortunately, Prince Romuald venerated a golden viper and hung animal skins on a tree used for pagan ceremonies. Archers superstitiously shot the animal skins during public games. St. Barbatus preached zealously against superstition. He foretold the distress of their city and the calamities it would suffer from Emperor Constans' invasion. When Emperor Constans laid siege to Benevento, Ildebrand, the bishop of Benevento, passed away. Once order was restored, Fr. Barbatus was consecrated bishop on March 10, 663. Invested with the episcopal character, Bp. Barbatus abolished superstitious practices. In 680, he assisted at Pope Agatho's council in Rome. The following year, he assisted at the Sixth General Council held in Constantinople against the Monothelites. He passed away on February 29, 682, after the assembly. He was around 70 years old and had served as bishop for 19 years.

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