Catholic Daily Readings for August 25 2023: Friday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time – Lectionary: 423
| Catholic Daily Readings for August 25 2023, Friday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time | |
|---|---|
| 1st Reading | Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14B-16, 22 |
| Responsorial Psalm | Psalms 146:5-6AB, 6C-7, 8-9A, 9BC-10 |
| Alleluia | Psalms 25:4B, 5A |
| Gospel | Matthew 22:34-40 |
Daily Mass Readings for August 25 2023, Friday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
1st Reading – Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14B-16, 22
1 In the days of one of the judges, when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a man from Bethlehem in Judah departed to sojourn in the region of the Moabites with his wife and two children.
3 Elimelech the husband of Naomi died; and she remained with her sons.
4 They took wives from among the Moabites, of whom one was called Orpah, and the other Ruth. And they lived there ten years.
5 And they both died, namely Mahlon and Chilion, and the woman was left alone, bereaved of her two children and her husband.
6 And she arose so that she might journey to her native land, with both her daughters-in-law, from the region of the Moabites. For she had heard that the Lord had provided for his people and had given them food.
14B Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, and then turned back. Ruth clung to her mother-in-law.
15 Naomi said to Ruth, “See, your sister-in-law returns to her people, and to her gods. Hurry after her.”
16 But Ruth said, “Do not be against me, as if I would abandon you and go away; for wherever you will go, I will go, and where you will stay, I also will stay with you. Your people are my people, and your God is my God.
22 22 Therefore, Naomi went with Ruth, the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, from the land of her sojourn, and returned to Bethlehem, at the time of the first reaping of the barley.
Responsorial Psalm – Psalms 146:5-6AB, 6C-7, 8-9A, 9BC-10
R. (1b) Praise the Lord, my soul!
5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the LORD, his God,
6AB Who made heaven and earth,
the sea and all that is in them.
R. Praise the Lord, my soul!
6C The LORD keeps faith forever,
7 secures justice for the oppressed,
gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets captives free.
R. Praise the Lord, my soul!
8 The LORD gives sight to the blind.
The LORD raises up those who were bowed down;
The LORD loves the just.
9A The LORD protects strangers.
R. Praise the Lord, my soul!
9BC The fatherless and the widow he sustains,
but the way of the wicked he thwarts.
10 The LORD shall reign forever;
your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia.
R. Praise the Lord, my soul!
Alleluia – Psalms 25:4B, 5A
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
4B Teach me your paths, my God,
5A guide me in your truth.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel – Matthew 22:34-40
34 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,
35 and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking,
36 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
37 He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
38 This is the greatest and the first commandment.
39 The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
Catholic Daily Readings Homily – August 25 2023, Friday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
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