Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, August 22 2019

Thursday of the Twentieth week in Ordinary Time

Thursday of the Twentieth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Judges

11,29-39a.

]The spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and through Mizpah-Gilead as well, and from there he went on to the Ammonites.
]Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. "If you deliver the Ammonites into my power," he said,
]"whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites shall belong to the LORD. I shall offer him up as a holocaust."
]Jephthah then went on to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD delivered them into his power,
]so that he inflicted a severe defeat on them, from Aroer to the approach of Minnith (twenty cities in all) and as far as Abel-keramin. Thus were the Ammonites brought into subjection by the Israelites.
]When Jephthah returned to his house in Mizpah, it was his daughter who came forth, playing the tambourines and dancing. She was an only child: he had neither son nor daughter besides her.
]When he saw her, he rent his garments and said, "Alas, daughter, you have struck me down and brought calamity upon me. For I have made a vow to the LORD and I cannot retract."
]"Father," she replied, "you have made a vow to the LORD. Do with me as you have vowed, because the LORD has wrought vengeance for you on your enemies the Ammonites."
]Then she said to her father, "Let me have this favor. Spare me for two months, that I may go off down the mountains to mourn my virginity with my companions."
]"Go," he replied, and sent her away for two months. So she departed with her companions and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
]At the end of the two months she returned to her father, who did to her as he had vowed.

Psalm

Psalms

40(39),5.7-8a.8b-9.10.

]Blessed the man who makes the LORD his trust;
who turns not to idolatry
or to those who stray after falsehood.
]Sacrifice or oblation you wished not,
but ears open to obedience you gave me.
Burnt offerings or sin-offerings you sought not;
]then said I, “Behold I come.”
]“In the written scroll it is prescribed for me,
]To do your will, O my God, is my delight,
and your law is within my heart!”
]I announced your justice in the vast assembly;
I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

22,1-14.

]Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in parables saying,
]“The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.
]He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come.
]A second time he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those invited: "Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast."'
]Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.
]The rest laid hold of his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
]The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
]Then he said to his servants, 'The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come.
]Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find.'
]The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found, bad and good alike, and the hall was filled with guests.
]But when the king came in to meet the guests he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment.
]He said to him, 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?' But he was reduced to silence.
]Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.'
]Many are invited, but few are chosen."

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