Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, November 11 2016

Friday of the Thirty-second week in Ordinary Time

Friday of the Thirty-second week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Second Letter of John

1,4-9.

](Chosen Lady) I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth just as we were commanded by the Father.
]But now, Lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing a new commandment but the one we have had from the beginning: let us love one another.
]For this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, in which you should walk.
]Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh; such is the deceitful one and the antichrist.
]Look to yourselves that you do not lose what we worked for but may receive a full recompense.
]Anyone who is so "progressive" as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God; whoever remains in the teaching has the Father and the Son.

Psalm

Psalms

119(118),1.2.10.11.17.18.

]Blessed are they whose way is blameless,
who walk in the law of the LORD.
]Blessed are they who observe his decrees,
Who seek him with all their heart.
]With all my heart I seek you;
let me not stray from your commands.
]Within my heart I treasure your promise,
That I may not sin against you. 
]Be good to your servant, that I may live
And keep your words.
]Open my eyes, that I may consider
the wonders of your law.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

17,26-37.

]Jesus said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man;
]they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
]Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
]on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all.
]So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
]On that day, a person who is on the housetop and whose belongings are in the house must not go down to get them, and likewise a person in the field must not return to what was left behind.
]Remember the wife of Lot.
]Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it.
]I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken, the other left.
]And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left."
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]They said to him in reply, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather."

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St. Martin of Tours(Bishop († 397) - Memorial)

SAINT MARTIN OF TOURSBishop ( 397) At a very young age, St. Martin became a Christian catechumen against his parents' wishes. At 15 years old, he was seized by his father, a pagan soldier, and enrolled in the army. One winter day, when stationed in Amiens, St. Martin met a beggar who was almost naked and freezing. Having no money, St. Martin cut his cloak and gave half to the beggar. That night, he saw Our Lord clothed in the half cloak. He heard Jesus say to the angels: "Martin, yet a catechumen, hath wrapped Me in this garment." St. Martin thus received baptism and later left the army. St. Martin happily witnessed his mother's conversion. However, he was driven from his home by Arian heretics. He then sheltered with St. Hilary; and together they founded the first monastery in France, near Poitiers. In 372, St. Martin was consecrated bishop of Tours. His flock, though Christian in name, was pagan at heart. Unarmed and attended only by his monks, St. Martin destroyed pagan temples and groves. He achieved the people's conversion through prayer, preaching and miracles. He is thus known as the Apostle of Gaul. St. Martin's last 11 years were spent in humble toil. The purity of his soul was manifested by God through many miracles. He is the patron saint of soldiers, conscientious objectors and beggars.

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