October 5, 2012
Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time.
We hope that today is a good day.
Today's Bible story based on the calendar of the Catholic Church.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendar.php
Most of these contents are things of The World English Bible.
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We hope that everyone in the peace of the Lord.
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+ Saints: Blessed Bartholomew Longo
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+ First Reading: Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5
38:1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
12 "Have you commanded the morning in your days,
and caused the dawn to know its place;
13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
and shake the wicked out of it?
14 It is changed as clay under the seal,
and stands forth as a garment.
15 From the wicked, their light is withheld.
The high arm is broken.
16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea?
Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth?
Declare, if you know it all.
19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light?
As for darkness, where is its place,
20 that you should take it to its bound,
that you should discern the paths to its house?
21 Surely you know, for you were born then,
and the number of your days is great!
40:3 Then Job answered Yahweh,
4 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you?
I lay my hand on my mouth.
5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer;
Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."
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+ Psalm: Psalms 139:1-3, 7-8, 9-10, 13-14ab
1 Yahweh, you have searched me,
and you know me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
7 Where could I go from your Spirit?
Or where could I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.
If I make my bed in Sheol*Sheol is the place of the dead., behold, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the dawn,
and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there your hand will lead me,
and your right hand will hold me.
13 For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother's womb.
14ab I will give thanks to you,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
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+ Gospel: Luke 10:13-16
13 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.
15 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. †Hades is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell.
16 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me."
†10:15: Hades is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell.
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+ Today's Reading: Judith 12:1-20
1 Then he commanded them to bring her in to where his plate was set; and he directed them to prepare for her from his own meats and that she should drink from his own wine.
2 And Judith said, "I will not eat of it, lest I offend, but provision will be made for me from the things which I have brought."
3 Then Holofernes said to her, "If your provisions should fail, how should we give you the like? For there are none among us from your nation."
4 Then Judith said to him, "As your soul lives, my lord, your handmaid will not use up those things which I have before the Lord works by my hand the things he has determined."
5 Then the servants of Holofernes brought her into the tent, and she slept until midnight, and she arose when it was toward the morning watch.
6 And she sent to Holofernes, saying, "Let my lord now command that your handmaid may go forth to prayer."
7 Then Holofernes commanded his guard not to prevent her; thus she resided in the camp for three days, and went out in the night into the valley of Bethulia and washed herself in a spring of water by the camp.
8 And when she came out, she beseeched the Lord God of Israel to direct her way in order to accomplish the raising up of the children of her people.
9 So she came in clean and remained in the tent until she ate her meat in the evening.
10 And on the fourth day, Holofernes made a feast for his own servants only, and he called none of the officers to the banquet.
11 Then he said to Bagoas the eunuch, who was in charge of all that he had, "Go now and persuade this Hebrew woman who is with you that she should come to us, and eat and drink with us.
12 For, see, it will be a shame upon our person, if we let such a woman go without having had her company; for if we do not draw her to us, she will laugh at us in scorn."
13 Then Bagoas went from the presence of Holofernes, and he came to her and said, "Let not this fair gentlewoman fear to approach my lord and to be honored in his presence, and to drink wine and be merry with us, and to become this day like one of the daughters of the Assyrians, who serve in the house of Nebuchadnezzar."
14 Then Judith said to him, "Who am I now, that I should contradict my lord? Surely whatever pleases him I will do without hesitation, and it will be my joy until the day of my death."
15 So she arose, and she decked herself out with her apparel and all her woman's attire. And her maid went and laid soft skins on the ground for her opposite Holofernes, which she had received from Bagoas for her daily use, so that she might sit and eat upon them.
16 Now when Judith came in and sat down with Holofernes, his heart was inflamed with her, and his mind was stirred up, and he greatly desired her company; for he had been waiting for sometime to deceive her, even from the day that he had first seen her.
17 Then Holofernes said to her, "Drink now and be merry with us."
18 So Judith said, "I will drink now, my lord, because my life is exalted in me this day more than all the days since I was born."
19 Then she took and ate and drank before him the things which her maid had prepared.
20 And Holofernes took great delight in her, and he drank more wine than he had drunk at any time in one day since he was born.
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