Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, July 20 2018

Friday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time

Friday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Isaiah

38,1-6.21-22.7-8.

]In those days, when Hezekiah was mortally ill, the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came and said to him: "Thus says the LORD: Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you shall not recover."
]Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD:
]"O LORD, remember how faithfully and wholeheartedly I conducted myself in your presence, doing what was pleasing to you!" And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
]Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:
]"Go, tell Hezekiah: Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will heal you: in three days you shall go up to the LORD'S temple; I will add fifteen years to your life.
]I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; I will be a shield to this city."
]Isaiah then ordered a poultice of figs to be taken and applied to the boil, that he might recover.
]Then Hezekiah asked, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the temple of the LORD?"
](Isaiah answered:) "This will be the sign for you from the LORD that he will do what he has promised:
]See, I will make the shadow cast by the sun on the stairway to the terrace of Ahaz go back the ten steps it has advanced." So the sun came back the ten steps it had advanced.

Psalm

Book of Isaiah

38,10.11.12abcd.16.

]Once I said,
"In the noontime of life I must depart!
To the gates of the nether world I shall be consigned
for the rest of my years."
]I said, "I shall see the LORD no more
in the land of the living.
No longer shall I behold my fellow men
among those who dwell in the world."
]My dwelling, like a shepherd's tent,
]is struck down and borne away from me;
]You have folded up my life, like a weaver
]who severs the last thread.
]Those live whom the LORD protects;
Yours is the life of my spirit.
You have given me health and life.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

12,1-8.

]Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
]When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath."
]He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry,
]how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat?
]Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent?
]I say to you, something greater than the temple is here.
]If you knew what this meant, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned these innocent men.
]For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath."

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St. Apollinaris(Bishop and Martyr (1st century))

SAINT APOLLINARISBishop and Martyr(1st century) St. Apollinaris was the first bishop of Ravenna. He was consecrated by St. Peter and sat twenty years. He survived persecutions up to the reign of Emperor Vespasian. St. Peter Chrysologus, one of St. Apollinaris' successors, gave us this account of him: "Though he frequently suffered for the Faith and ardently desired to lay down his life for Christ, God preserved Apollinaris a long time and did not allow the persecutors to take his life." St. Apollinaris is considered a martyr because he suffered multiple persecutions. St. Apollinaris' relics were enshrined first in Classis, four miles from Ravenna: a kind of suburb to the city and its seaport. In 549, his relics were moved to a more secret vault in the same church. St. Fortunatus urged his friends to make pilgrimages there, and St. Gregory the Great ordered parties in doubtful suits to be sworn before it. In 630, Pope Honorius built and dedicated a church to St. Apollinaris in Rome. St. Apollinaris is celebrated in all the martyrologies. He is invoked as an intercessor and a help against evil.

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St. Margaret of Antioch(Virgin and Martyr (3rd century))

SAINT MARGARET OF ANTIOCHVirgin and Martyr(3rd century) According to the ancient martyrologies, St. Margaret suffered in Antioch, Pisidia, during the last general persecution. She had been instructed in the Faith by a Christian nurse and was killed by her father, a pagan priest. Her veneration was propagated in England, France and Germany. The twelfth century saw an increase in hercult because of Islamic invasions in Edessa and Spain (Surah 9:29, Sahih al-Bukhari 6924, At-Tabari Volume VI). Her relics are kept in Monte-Fiascone, Tuscany, central Italy.

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St. Kunigunde()

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