Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, August 5 2016

Friday of the Eighteenth week in Ordinary Time

Friday of the Eighteenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Nahum

2,1.3.3,1-3.6-7.

]See, upon the mountains there advances the bearer of good news, announcing peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah, fulfill your vows! For nevermore shall you be invaded by the scoundrel; he is completely destroyed.
]The LORD will restore the vine of Jacob, the pride of Israel, Though ravagers have ravaged them and ruined the tendrils.
]Woe to the bloody city, all lies, full of plunder, whose looting never stops!
]The crack of the whip, the rumbling sounds of wheels; horses a-gallop, chariots bounding,
]Cavalry charging, The flame of the sword, the flash of the spear, the many slain, the heaping corpses, the endless bodies to stumble upon!
]I will cast filth upon you, disgrace you and put you to shame;
]Till everyone who sees you runs from you, saying, "Nineveh is destroyed; who can pity her? Where can one find any to console her?"

Psalm

Book of Deuteronomy

32,35cd-36ab.39abcd.41.

]Close at hand is the day of their disaster
]and their doom is rushing upon them!
]Surely, the LORD shall do justice for his people;
]on his servants he shall have pity.
]"Learn then that I, I alone, am God,
]and there is no god besides me.
]It is I who bring both death and life,
]I who inflict wounds and heal them.
]I will sharpen my flashing sword,
and my hand shall lay hold of my quiver.
"With vengeance I will repay my foes
and requite those who hate me."

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

16,24-28.

]Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
]For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
]What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?
]For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father's glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct."
]Amen, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."

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