Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, April 12 2019

Friday of the Fifth week of Lent

Friday of the Fifth week of Lent

1. Reading

Book of Jeremiah

20,10-13.

]I hear the whisperings of many: "Terror on every side! Denounce! let us denounce him!" All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine. "Perhaps he will be trapped; then we can prevail, and take our vengeance on him."
]But the LORD is with me, like a mighty champion: my persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph. In their failure they will be put to utter shame, to lasting, unforgettable confusion.
]O LORD of hosts, you who test the just, who probe mind and heart, Let me witness the vengeance you take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause.
]Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD, For he has rescued the life of the poor from the power of the wicked!

Psalm

Psalms

18(17),2-3a.3bc-4.5-6.7.

]I love you, O LORD, my strength,
]O LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer.
]My God, my rock of refuge,
]my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold!
]Praised be the LORD, I exclaim,
and I am safe from my enemies.
]The breakers of death surged round about me,
the destroying floods overwhelmed me;
]The cords of the nether world enmeshed me,
the snares of death overtook me.
]In my distress I called upon the LORD
and cried out to my God;
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.  

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

10,31-42.

]The Jews picked up rocks to stone Jesus.
]Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?"
]The Jews answered him, "We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God."
]Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods"'?
]If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be set aside,
]can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
]If I do not perform my Father's works, do not believe me;
]but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize (and understand) that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."
](Then) they tried again to arrest him; but he escaped from their power.
]He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and there he remained.
]Many came to him and said, "John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true."
]And many there began to believe in him.

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St. Julius I(Pope († 352))

SAINT JULIUS Pope (+ 352) St. Julius was consecrated pope on February 6, 337. He struggled to protect the Church from the Arian heresy. Arianism denied Christ's divinity and proofs of the Trinity found in Tradition and Scripture. Pope Julius arranged an impartial hearing when Arian bishops from the East accused St. Athanasius, Alexandria's patriarch. He then assembled a council in 341. Instead of appearing, the Arians held a pretend council in Antioch and appointed Gregory as Alexandria's bishop. The usurper detained papal legates and blamed the Persian war in a letter to the Pope. Pope Julius declared St. Athanasius' innocent during a Roman council and confirmed the latter in his see. Elements of the Church also exploited Arianism for their own personal gain. Oriental Eusebian bishops accused Marcellus of Ancyra, demanded a council and then refused to appear in it. A record of the event is in Pope Julius' letter delivered by Count Gabian. Pope Julius besought Constans, the Western emperor, to have Constantius assemble a general council in Sardica, Illyricum. The general council opened in May 347 and concluded that St. Athanasius and Marcellus of Ancyra were orthodox and innocent. The council also deposed certain Arian bishops and framed twenty-one canons of discipline. Pope Julius led the Church for fifteen years, two months and six days. He passed away on April 12, 352, and joined Christ and the saints in Heaven. He intercedes for those who ask in causes of orthodoxy and unity.

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