Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, September 30 2016

Friday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time

Friday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Job

38,1.12-21.40,3-5.

]The LORD addressed Job out of the storm and said :
]Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morning and shown the dawn its place
]For taking hold of the ends of the earth, till the wicked are shaken from its surface?
]The earth is changed as is clay by the seal, and dyed as though it were a garment;
]But from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm of pride is shattered.
]Have you entered into the sources of the sea, or walked about in the depths of the abyss?
]Have the gates of death been shown to you, or have you seen the gates of darkness?
]Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Tell me, if you know all:
]Which is the way to the dwelling place of light, and where is the abode of darkness,
]That you may take them to their boundaries and set them on their homeward paths?
]You know, because you were born before them, and the number of your years is great!
]Then Job answered the LORD and said:
]Behold, I am of little account; what can I answer you? I put my hand over my mouth.
]Though I have spoken once, I will not do so again; though twice, I will do so no more.

Psalm

Psalms

139(138),1-3.7-8.9-10.13-14ab.

]O LORD, you have probed me and you know me;
]you know when I sit and when I stand;
you understand my thoughts from afar.
]My journeys and my rest you scrutinize,
with all my ways you are familiar.
]Where can I go from your spirit?
from your presence where can I flee?
]If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I sink to the nether world, you are present there.
]If I take the wings of the dawn,
if I settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
]even there your hand shall guide me,
and your right hand hold me fast.
]Truly you have formed my inmost being;
you knit me in my mother's womb.
]I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made;
]wonderful are your works.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

10,13-16.

]Jesus said to them, “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
]But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.
]And as for you, Capernaum, 'Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.'"
]Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

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St. Jerome(Priest and Doctor of the Church (c. 340- c. 420) - Memorial)

SAINT JEROME Priest and Doctor of the Church(c. 340-c.420) St. Jerome was born in Dalmatia circa 347. He attended school in Rome, but had excessive love for knowledge and passion for books. He studied under the best masters, visited foreign cities and devoted himself to the pursuit of science. Little did he know that Jesus had need of his strong will and penetrating intellect. When St. Jerome encountered Jesus Christ, he made a vow of celibacy, departed Rome and lived in the wild Syrian desert. There, for four years, he learned penance, prayer and divine wisdom. He disproved the claim of heretics that the Blessed Virgin Mary had other children; and his proof of her perpetual virginity helped secure the unity of Christian faith. The third-century Marian prayer Sub Tuum Praesidium shows the veneration Christians have for the Mother of God; as only she whose flesh is sinless could give birth to Jesus who is sinless. When the pope besought St. Jerome to revise the Latin Bible, the latter used his fluency in Hebrew to great effect. The Latin Revision was St. Jerome's magnum opus and a blessing from the Holy Spirit. Retiring afterward to his beloved Bethlehem, he illuminated our Christian faith for another thirty years.

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