Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, August 23 2019

Friday of the Twentieth week in Ordinary Time

Friday of the Twentieth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Ruth

1,1.3-6.14b-16.22.

]Once in the time of the judges there was a famine in the land; so a man from Bethlehem of Judah departed with his wife and two sons to reside on the plateau of Moab.
]Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons,
]who married Moabite women, one named Orpah, the other Ruth. When they had lived there about ten years,
]both Mahlon and Chilion died also, and the woman was left with neither her two sons nor her husband.
]She then made ready to go back from the plateau of Moab because word reached her there that the LORD had visited his people and given them food.
]Again they sobbed aloud and wept; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye, but Ruth stayed with her.
]"See now!" she said, "your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her god. Go back after your sister-in-law!"
]But Ruth said, "Do not ask me to abandon or forsake you! for wherever you go I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
]Thus it was that Naomi returned with the Moabite daughter-in-law, Ruth, who accompanied her back from the plateau of Moab. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Psalm

Psalms

146(145),5-6.7.8-9a.9bc-10.

]Blessed he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the LORD, his God,
]Who made heaven and earth,
the sea and all that is in them.
Who keeps faith forever,
]secures justice for the oppressed,
gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets captives free.  
]The LORD gives sight to the blind.
The LORD raises up those who were bowed down;
the LORD loves the just.
]The LORD protects strangers.
]The fatherless and the widow the LORD sustains,
]but the way of the wicked he thwarts.
]The LORD shall reign forever;
your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

22,34-40.

]When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,
]and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking,
]“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
]He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
]This is the greatest and the first commandment.
]The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
]The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

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St. Rose of Lima(Religious (1586-1617))

SAINT ROSE OF LIMA Religious(1586-1617) St. Rose is the first canonized saint of the New World. She was born in Lima, Peru, and was baptized Isabel. However, the beauty of her features made others nickname her Rose. When she was a baby, her silence during a painful surgical operation showed her uniqueness. She began working at an early age to support her parents; and despite hardships and austerities, her beauty increased. She was openly admired, so she cut off her hair to avoid vanity and blistered her face with pepper and her hands with lime. St. Rose enrolled in the Third Order of St. Dominic and took St. Catherine of Siena as her model. Her cell was a garden hut and her couch was a box of broken tiles. Under her habit, she wore a hair-shirt studded with iron nails. A silver crown armed with ninety points encircled her head, which she concealed with a veil. More than once, when she shuddered at the prospect of a night of hardship, a voice said, "My cross was more painful." The Blessed Sacrament was St. Rose's singular delight. All of her sufferings were offered for the conversion of sinners. She also thought frequently of the multitudes in hell. Shepassed away in 1617 at the age of 31. She is a patroness of the Americas, indigenous persons and those suffering for their faith.

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