Friday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – 1 Rev 10:8-11
I, John, heard a voice from heaven speak to me. Then the voice spoke to me and said: “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.” So I went up to the angel and told him to give me the small scroll. He said to me, “Take and swallow it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey.” I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and swallowed it. In my mouth it was like sweet honey, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. Then someone said to me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.”
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131 (R. 103a)
R. How sweet to my taste is your promise!
In the way of your decrees I rejoice,
as much as in all riches.. R.
Yes, your decrees are my delight;
they are my counselors. R.
The law of your mouth is to me more precious
than thousands of gold and silver pieces. R.
The law of your mouth is to me more precious
than thousands of gold and silver pieces. R.
How sweet to my palate are your promises,
sweeter than honey to my mouth! R.
Your decrees are my inheritance forever;
the joy of my heart they are. R.
I gasp with open mouth
in my yearning for your commands. R.
Gospel – Lk 19:45-48
Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things, saying to them, “It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.” And every day he was teaching in the temple area. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile, were seeking to put him to death, but they could find no way to accomplish their purpose because all the people were hanging on his words.
Featured Saints
St. Edmund, martyr (†869). Christian King of East Anglia, he was captured by pagan Danish invaders, tortured and finally decapitated for refusing to renounce his faith in Christ.
St. Crispin, bishop and martyr (†third century). Bishop of Ecija, Spain, beheaded during the persecutions of the Roman Empire.
St. Bernward, Bispo (†1022). He restored the discipline of the clergy through numerous synods and promoted monastic life in the Diocese of Hildesheim (Germany).
St. Sylvester, Bispo (†520 a 530). Bishop of Chalons‑sur‑Saône, France.
St. Cyprian of Calamizzi, abbot (†1190). Wealthy physician who left everything to enter the Monastery of the Most Holy Redeemer in Calanna, Italy. Elected abbot of St. Nicholas Abbey in Calamizzi, he was rigorous with himself, generous to the poor and a wise counsellor to all.
St. Francis Xavier Can, martyr (†1837). Catechist, strangled and beheaded in Hanoi, Vietnam, at the time of Emperor Minh Mang.
Sts. Solutor, Octavius and Adventor, martyrs (†284). Soldiers of the Theban Legion, killed by order of Emperor Maximianus.
Blessed Maria Fortunata Viti,virgin (†1922). Nun from the Benedictine convent of Veroli, Italy, where she spent more than seventy years in a life of recollection, fulfilling humble duties.
St. Gregory Decapolite, monk (†842). A coenobite, anchorite and pilgrim. He died in Constantinople, where he fought for the cult of sacred images.
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