Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, August 25 2017

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. Louis(King of France (1215-1270))

SAINT LOUIS King of France(1215-1270) At 12 years old, Saint Louis became the king of France. His mother once told him that she would rather see him die than commit a mortal sin. In less than 2 years, he suppressed Albigensian heretics and forced them to respect the Catholic faith. This episode may have motivated him to pass a law that required blasphemers to be branded on the lips. When his courtiers remonstrated with him, he replied that he would willingly have his own lips branded to root out blasphemy. Amidst the cares of government, he recited the Liturgy of the Hours and heard two Masses daily. King Louis was chosen to arbitrate in the great feuds of his day: between the Pope and the Emperor and between Henry III and the English barons. Like his predecessor Charles Martel, King Louis fought to repel Islamic invasion. Before the first crusade 1095, Islamic armies had invaded Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, France, Sicily, Turkey, Armenia and Italy. In 1248, King Louis moved to liberate Jerusalem. During the conflict, he proved himself the truest of Christian knights: receiving both victory and defeat, remaining pious in sickness and captivity. While King Louis was held captive in Damietta, an Emir rushed into his tent brandishing a dagger. The Emir threatened to stab him unless he conferred knighthood as Emperor Frederick had done with Facardin. King Louis calmly replied that no unbeliever could perform the duties of a Christian knight. When offered freedom in exchange for blaspheming and to spare Christians, he refused. The death of King Louis' mother recalled him to France. When order was restored, he embarked on a second crusade. In August 1270, his army landed in Tunis and was victorious. However, he succumbed to a malignant fever. He received the Viaticum kneeling by his camp-bed and gave up his soul to God. Two grand Gothic churches honoring Jesus Christ were built in Paris, France thanks to him: Sainte-Chapelle and the Basilica of Saint-Denis.

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