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Year 2 Weekday Reading. (28/5/10)
Friday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1
Beloved:
The
end of all things is at hand.
Therefore
be serious and sober-minded
so that
you will be able to pray.
Above
all, let your love for one another be intense,
because
love covers a multitude of sins.
Be
hospitable to one another without complaining.
As
each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another
as good
stewards of God’s varied grace.
Whoever
preaches, let it be with the words of God;
whoever
serves, let it be with the strength that God supplies,
so that
in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
to whom
belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Beloved,
do not be surprised that a trial by fire is occurring among you,
as if
something strange were happening to you.
But
rejoice to the extent that you share in the sufferings of Christ,
so that
when his glory is revealed
you may also rejoice exultantly.
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(13b) The Lord comes to
judge the earth.
Say
among the nations: The LORD is king.
He
has made the world firm, not to be moved;
he
governs the peoples with equity.
R.
The Lord comes to judge the earth.
Let
the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice;
let the
sea and what fills it resound;
let the
plains be joyful and all that is in them!
Then
shall all the trees of the forest exult.
R.
The Lord comes to judge the earth.
Before
the LORD, for he comes;
for he
comes to rule the earth.
He
shall rule the world with justice
and the
peoples with his constancy.
R.
The Lord comes to
judge the earth.
Gospel
Jesus
entered Jerusalem and went into the temple area.
He
looked around at everything and, since it was already late,
went out
to Bethany with the Twelve.
The
next day as they were leaving Bethany he was hungry.
Seeing
from a distance a fig tree in leaf,
he went
over to see if he could find anything on it.
When
he reached it he found nothing but leaves;
it was
not the time for figs.
And
he said to it in reply, “May no one ever eat of your fruit again!”
And
his disciples heard it.
They
came to Jerusalem,
and on
entering the temple area
he began
to drive out those selling and buying there.
He
overturned the tables of the money changers
and the
seats of those who were selling doves.
He
did not permit anyone to carry anything through the temple area.
Then
he taught them saying, “Is it not written:
My
house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples?
But
you have made it a den of thieves.”
The
chief priests and the scribes came to hear of it
and were
seeking a way to put him to death,
yet they
feared him
because
the whole crowd was astonished at his teaching.
When
evening came, they went out of the city.
Early
in the morning, as they were walking along,
they saw
the fig tree withered to its roots.
Peter
remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look!
The
fig tree that you cursed has withered.”
Jesus
said to them in reply, “Have faith in God.
Amen,
I say to you, whoever says to this mountain,
‘Be
lifted up and thrown into the sea,’
and does
not doubt in his heart
but
believes that what he says will happen,
it shall
be done for him.
Therefore
I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer,
believe
that you will receive it and it shall be yours.
When
you stand to pray,
forgive
anyone against whom you have a grievance,
so that
your heavenly Father may in turn
forgive you your transgressions.”
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