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Friday, August 9, 2024
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St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), Virgin and Martyr (Optional Memorial)
First Reading
Nahum 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7
2
1The shatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.
3The shield of his mighty men is red, his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots flash like flame when mustered in array; the chargers prance.
3
1Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and booty— no end to the plunder!
2The crack of whip, and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
3Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over the bodies!
6I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock.
7And all who look on you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Ninʹeveh; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for her?
Responsorial Psalm
Deuteronomy 32:35-36, 39, 41
35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.
36For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none remaining, bond or free.
39“ ‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
41if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will requite those who hate me.
Gospel
Matthew 16:24-28
24Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
25For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?
27For the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done.
28Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”