Liturgy of the Hours
Saint Cajetan, Priest or Saint Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs or Friday in the 17th week of Ordinary Time
Prayer Hours
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Invitatory
Office of Readings
Morning Prayer
Midmorning Prayer
Midday Prayer
Midafternoon Prayer
Evening Prayer
Night Prayer
1 audio recording available
Mass Readings
Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
First Reading
Nahum 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7
See, upon the mountains there advances the bearer of good news, announcing peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah, fulfill your vows! For nevermore shall you be invaded by the scoundrel; he is completely destroyed. The LORD will restore the vine of Jacob, the pride of Israel, Though ravagers have ravaged them and ruined the tendrils.Woe to the bloody city, all lies, full of plunder, whose looting never stops! The crack of the whip, the rumbling sounds of wheels; horses a-gallop, chariots bounding...
Responsorial Psalm
Deuteronomy 32:35cd-36ab, 39abcd, 41
Refrain: It is I who deal death and give life.
Gospel
Matthew 16:24-28
Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay each according to his conduct. Amen, I say to you, there are so...
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