Friday · 22 August 2025
Friday of the Twentieth week in Ordinary Time
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Book of Ruth
| Ruth 1,1.3-6.14b-16.22. |
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1 Once in the time of the judges there was a famine in the land; so a man from Bethlehem of Judah departed with his wife and two sons to reside on the plateau of Moab.
3 Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons,
4 who married Moabite women, one named Orpah, the other Ruth. When they had lived there about ten years,
5 both Mahlon and Chilion died also, and the woman was left with neither her two sons nor her husband.
6 She then made ready to go back from the plateau of Moab because word reached her there that the LORD had visited his people and given them food.
[[Rt 1,14b]]Again they sobbed aloud and wept; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye, but Ruth stayed with her.
15 "See now!" she said, "your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her god. Go back after your sister-in-law!"
16 But Ruth said, "Do not ask me to abandon or forsake you! for wherever you go I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
22 Thus it was that Naomi returned with the Moabite daughter-in-law, Ruth, who accompanied her back from the plateau of Moab. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
Psalms
| Ps 146(145),5-6.7.8-9a.9bc-10. |
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5 Blessed he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the LORD, his God,
6 Who made heaven and earth,
the sea and all that is in them.
Who keeps faith forever,
7 secures justice for the oppressed,
gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets captives free.
8 The LORD gives sight to the blind.
The LORD raises up those who were bowed down;
the LORD loves the just.
[[Ps 146,9a]]The LORD protects strangers.
[[Ps 146,9b]]The fatherless and the widow the LORD sustains,
[[Ps 146,9c]]but the way of the wicked he thwarts.
10 The LORD shall reign forever;
your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew
| Matt 22,34-40. |
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34 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,
35 and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking,
36 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
37 He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
38 This is the greatest and the first commandment.
39 The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
Readings follow the USCCB Liturgical Calendar. Sourced from Evangelizo. Scripture © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB.
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