Friday of the Fourteenth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Genesis

Israel set out with all that was his. When he arrived at Beer-sheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
There God, speaking to Israel in a vision by night, called, "Jacob! Jacob!" "Here I am," he answered.
Then he said: "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation.
Not only will I go down to Egypt with you; I will also bring you back here, after Joseph has closed your eyes."
So Jacob departed from Beer-sheba, and the sons of Israel put their father and their wives and children on the wagons that Pharaoh had sent for his transport.
They took with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan. Thus Jacob and all his descendants migrated to Egypt.
His sons and his grandsons, his daughters and his granddaughters--all his descendants--he took with him to Egypt.
Israel had sent Judah ahead to Joseph, so that he might meet him in Goshen. On his arrival in the region of Goshen,
Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and rode to meet his father Israel in Goshen. As soon as he saw him, he flung himself on his neck and wept a long time in his arms.
And Israel said to Joseph, "At last I can die, now that I have seen for myself that Joseph is still alive."

Psalms

Trust in the LORD and do good,
that you may dwell in the land and be fed in security.
Take delight in the LORD,
and he will grant you your heart's requests.
The LORD watches over the lives of the wholehearted;
their inheritance lasts forever.
They are not put to shame in an evil time;
in days of famine they have plenty.
Turn from evil and do good,
that you may abide forever;
For the LORD loves what is right,
and forsakes not his faithful ones.
The salvation of the just is from the LORD;
He is their refuge in time of distress.
The LORD helps them and delivers them;
He delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

Jesus said to his Apostles: “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.
But beware of men, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues,
and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans.
When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say.
For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.
You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved."
When they persecute you in one town, flee to another. Amen, I say to you, you will not finish the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes."

St. Benedict(Abbot and Patron of Europe (c. 480-547))

SAINT BENEDICTAbbot and Patron of Europe(c. 480-547) St. Benedict was born to a noble Italian family around 480. He was sent to public school in Rome, but retreated to the mountains of Subiaco after being appalled by the Roman youths' licentiousness. Divine providence guided him to a deep cave, where he made his abode and contemplated Jesus' life together with the Blessed Virgin Mary. Benedict lived in Subiaco for three years unbeknownst to everyone except Romanus, a holy monk who fed Benedict and clothed him with the monastic habit. Benedict discerned God's will through vigils, listening and meditation. He meditated on the mystery of death, and his faith-expression was unique in that sense. As the abbot of a monastery, Benedict's guidance was rigorous, but blessed. One of his disaffected disciples mixed poison into his drink; and when Benedict made the sign of the cross over it, the vessel shattered. This miracle was one of many during his life. After building twelve monasteries in Subiaco, Benedict founded an abbey in Monte Casino and wrote his Benedictine Rule. His rule and monasteries are widely regarded as the progenitor of Western monasticism. The institute's activity diffused Christendom throughout Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire, with the result that works of Western civilization were preserved and propagated and monasteries became centers of higher education and learning. Guided by the will of God through prayer, Benedict wrought miracles, saw visions and prophesied. He raised a dead man's son to life, which Alban Butler narrated: "Once, a peasant whose son had died ran to him crying, 'Give me back my son!' Benedict replied, 'Such miracles are not for me to work, but for the blessed apostles. Why would you lay a burden upon me that my weakness cannot bear?' Moved at length by compassion, Benedict knelt and prostrated himself. Rising, he said in a loud voice, 'Behold not, O Lord, my sins, but the faith of this man who desires the life of his son, and restore to the body that soul which you have taken.' Hardly had he spoken when the child's body trembled. Taking the child's hand, Benedict gave him alive to his father." If God listened to Benedict during life, how much more will God listen when Benedict sees Him face to face? Six days before his death, Benedict ordered his grave to be opened and he fell ill with fever. On the sixth day, he requested to be borne to the chapel. After receiving the Eucharist with hands uplifted and leaning on one of his disciples, he calmly passed away on March 21, 547.Pope Paul VI proclaimed Benedict the patron of Europe on October 24, 1964 (Apostolic Letter: Pacis nuntius).

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