Friday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

November 23, 2012

Friday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time

Reading 1 – Revelation 10.8-11

I, John, heard a voice from heaven speak to me, saying,
“Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”
I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book.
He said to me, “Take it and eat it up.
It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”
I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up.
It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.
They told me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”

Responsorial – Psalm 119.14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131 Resp. 103a

R. How sweet are your promises to my taste.

I have rejoiced in the way of your covenant,
as much as in all riches.

R. How sweet are your promises to my taste.

Indeed your statutes are my delight,
and my counselors.

R. How sweet are your promises to my taste.

The law of your mouth is better to me
than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

R. How sweet are your promises to my taste.

How sweet are your promises to my taste,
more than honey to my mouth!

R. How sweet are your promises to my taste.

I have taken your covenant as a heritage forever,
for it is the joy of my heart.

R. How sweet are your promises to my taste.

I opened my mouth wide and panted,
for I longed for your commandments.

R. How sweet are your promises to my taste.

Gospel – Luke 19.45-48

Jesus went into the temple,
and began to cast out the merchants,
saying to them, “It is written,
My house is the house of prayer,
but you have made it a den of robbers.”

He taught daily in the temple,
The chief priests and the scribes
and the leaders of the people sought to destroy him,
but they were not finding anyway they could act,
for the whole people, listening, clung to him.