Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, November 16 2018

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. Margaret of Scotland((c. 1046-1093))

SAINT MARGARET OF SCOTLANDQueen of ScotlandFoundress of abbeys( 1093) Saint Margaret's name means "pearl." "A fitting name," said Theodoric, her confessor and first biographer. Her soul was like a precious pearl: A life amidst the luxury of a royal court never dimmed its luster or stole it away from Christ. She was the granddaughter of an English king. In 1070, she became the bride of Malcolm and the queen of Scotland. St. Margaret built churches and monasteries, made vestments and upheld divine and moral laws throughout her realm. She ordered her prayers and devotions so prudently that she edified her husband. He rose with her at night for prayer and kissed the holy books she read. Sometimes, he covered her books in jewels. St. Margaret conducted herself with supernatural intention while educating her eight children. She bore the fruits of the Holy Spirit and was her husband's most trusted counselor. Together, they labored for their country's improvement. On her deathbed, St. Margaret learned that her husband and eldest son were slain in battle. She bore this affliction with humility and as a penance for sins. After receiving the Holy Viaticum, she repeated the Missal's prayer, "O Lord Jesus Christ, who by Thy death didst give life to the world, deliver me." At the words "deliver me," says her biographer, she departed for Christ, the Author of Life (Ac. 3:15). She was declared Scotland's patroness in 1673.

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St. Gertrude the Great(Abbess († c. 1302))

SAINT GERTRUDE Abbess ( c. 1302) St. Gertrude was born in 1256 to a noble Saxon family. At 5 years old, shewas placed in the Benedictine abbey of Rodelsdorf. Her brilliant mind was carefully cultivated; and she became remarkably fluent in Latin. Above all, she was humble, mortified and faithful in monastic observances. St. Gertrude's life was colored with wonder and mystical experiences. She obediently recorded some of her visions where her soul conversed intimately with Jesus and Mary. She was gentle to all, especially to wayward and misguided souls. She was especially devoted to the saints, to souls in purgatory and above all to the Passion of Our Lord and to His Sacred Heart. St. Gertrude ruled her abbey for 40 years. She suffered from moral and physical pain, but lovingly carried her crosses. Her longing for Heaven was granted in 1301 or 1302.

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