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Friday, August 21, 2026

Liturgy of the Hours

Saint Pius X, Pope

Prayer Hours

About Today

Invitatory

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Office of Readings - Memorial

Morning Prayer - Memorial

Midmorning Prayer

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Midday Prayer

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Midafternoon Prayer

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Evening Prayer - Memorial

Night Prayer

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Mass Readings

Memorial of Saint Pius X, Pope

First Reading

Ezekiel 37:1-14

The hand of the LORD came upon me, and led me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the center of the plain, which was now filled with bones. He made me walk among the bones in every direction so that I saw how many they were on the surface of the plain. How dry they were! He asked me: Son of man, can these bones come to life? I answered, “Lord GOD, you alone know that.” Then he said to me: Prophesy over these bones, and say to them: Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! Thus says the Lord...

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 107:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9

Refrain: Give thanks to the Lord; his love is everlasting.

Gospel

Matthew 22:34-40

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments....

Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States, second typical edition, Copyright © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; Psalm refrain © 1968, 1981, 1997, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved.