Catholic Daily Mass Readings for June 28 2024, Friday, Memorial of Saint Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr

Catholic Daily Mass Readings for June 28 2024, Friday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time, Memorial of Saint Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr 1st Reading: 2 Kings 25:1-12 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 Alleluia: Matthew 8:17 Gospel: Matthew 8:1-4 1st Reading – 2 Kings 25:1-12 1 In the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and his whole army advanced against Jerusalem, encamped around it, and built siege walls on every side. 2 The siege of the city continued until the eleventh year of Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, when famine had gripped the city, and the people had no more bread, 4 the city walls were breached. Then the king and all the soldiers left the city by night through the gate between the two walls that was near the king’s garden. Since the Chaldeans had the city surrounded, they went in the direction of the Arabah. 5 But the Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook him in the desert near Jericho, abandoned by his whole army. 6 The king was therefore arrested and brought to Riblah to the king of Babylon, who pronounced sentence on him.