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Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time

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Reading I Am 8:4-6, 9-12

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy
and destroy the poor of the land!
“When will the new moon be over,” you ask,
“that we may sell our grain,
and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat?”
We will diminish the containers for measuring,
add to the weights,
and fix our scales for cheating!
We will buy the lowly man for silver,

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Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time

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Readings for the Optional Memorial of the First Holy Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church

Reading I Am 7:10-17

Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam,
king of Israel:
“Amos has conspired against you here within Israel;
the country cannot endure all his words.
For this is what Amos says:
Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel shall surely be exiled from its land.”

To Amos,

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Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles

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Readings for the VigilReadings for the Mass during the Day

Vigil

Mass during the Day

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Reading I Acts 3:1-10

Peter and John were going up to the temple area
for the three o’clock hour of prayer.
And a man crippled from birth was carried
and placed at the gate of the temple called “the Beautiful Gate”
every day to beg for alms from the people who entered the temple.

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Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles

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Reading I Acts 12:1-11

In those days, King Herod laid hands upon some members of the Church to harm them.
He had James, the brother of John, killed by the sword,
and when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews
he proceeded to arrest Peter also.
–It was the feast of Unleavened Bread.–
He had him taken into custody and put in prison
under the guard of four squads of four soldiers each.

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Memorial of Saint Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr

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Readings for the Memorial of Saint Irenaeus, bishop and martyr

Reading I Am 3:1-8; 4:11-12

Hear this word, O children of Israel, that the LORD pronounces over you,
over the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt:

            You alone have I favored,
                        more than all the families of the earth;
            Therefore I will punish you
                        for all your crimes.

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Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Readings for the The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Memorial

Reading I Lam 2:2, 10-14, 18-19

The Lord has consumed without pity
all the dwellings of Jacob;
He has torn down in his anger
the fortresses of daughter Judah;
He has brought to the ground in dishonor
her king and her princes.

On the ground in silence sit
the old men of daughter Zion;

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