Friday of the Twenty-third week in Ordinary Time

First Letter to the Corinthians

9,16-19.22b-27.

Brothers and sisters : If I preach the Gospel, this is no reason for me to boast, for an obligation has been imposed on me, and woe to me if I do not preach it!
If I do so willingly, I have a recompense, but if unwillingly, then I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
What then is my recompense? That, when I preach, I offer the gospel free of charge so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
Although I am free in regard to all, I have made myself a slave to all so as to win over as many as possible.
To the weak I became weak, to win over the weak. I have become all things to all, to save at least some.
All this I do for the sake of the gospel, so that I too may have a share in it.
Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race, but only one wins the prize? Run so as to win.
Every athlete exercises discipline in every way. They do it to win a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.
Thus I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight as if I were shadowboxing.
No, I drive my body and train it, for fear that, after having preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

Psalms

84(83),3.4.5-6.12.

My soul yearns and pines
for the courts of the LORD.
My heart and my flesh
cry out for the living God.
Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest
in which she puts her young?
Your altars, O LORD of hosts,
my king and my God!
Blessed are they who dwell in your house!
Continually they praise you.
Happy the men whose strength you are!
Their hearts are set upon the pilgrimage.
For a sun and shield is the LORD God,
bestowing all grace and glory.
The LORD withholds no good thing
from those who walk without reproach.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

6,39-42.

Jesus told his disciples a parable : "Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?
No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher.
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?
How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,' when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother's eye."

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St. Peter Claver(Priest (1580-1654) - Memorial)

SAINT PETER CLAVERPriest(1580-1654) St. Peter Claver was a Spanish Jesuit. In Majorca, he befriended the holy lay-brother Alphonsus Rodriguez, who became his spiritual guide, foretold the labors he would undergo in the Indies, and the throne he would gain in heaven. Ordained a priest in New Granada, Peter was sent to Cartagena, the great slave-mart of the West Indies, where he consecrated himself to the salvation of slaves. For more than forty years, he labored in this work, calling himself "the slave of the slaves." He was their apostle, father, physician, and friend. He fed them, nursed them, and tended to their sores. His cloak, though soiled from ulcers, sent forth a miraculous perfume. His rest was in nights of penance and prayer. However tired he might be, when news arrived of a fresh slave-ship, St. Peter immediately revived, his eyes brightened, and he was at once on board, bringing them comfort for body and soul. A false charge of reiterating Baptism for a while stopped his work. He submitted without a murmur till the calumny was refuted. God so blessed his toil that 40,000 were baptized before he went to his reward in 1654.

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