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Friday 20 June 2025    (other days)
Friday of week 11 in Ordinary Time

Using calendar: Scotland. You can pick a diocese or region.

Readings at Mass

Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).


First reading
2 Corinthians 11:18, 21b-30

‘Apart from other things, there is the pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.’

Brothers and Sisters: Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast. But whatever anyone else dares to boast of — I am speaking as a fool — I also dare to boast of that. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one — I am talking like a madman — with far greater labours, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; for a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?
  If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 34(33):2-3. 4-5. 6-7. ℟ cf. 18b
God rescues the just one in all his distress.
I will bless the Lord at all times,
praise of him is always in my mouth.
In the Lord my soul shall make its boast;
the humble shall hear and be glad.
God rescues the just one in all his distress.
Glorify the Lord with me;
together let us praise his name.
I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
from all my terrors he set me free.
God rescues the just one in all his distress.
Look towards him and be radiant;
let your faces not be abashed.
This lowly one called; the Lord heard,
and rescued him from all his distress.
God rescues the just one in all his distress.

Gospel AcclamationMatthew 5:3
Alleluia, alleluia.
Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Alleluia.

GospelMatthew 6:19-23

‘Where your treasure is, there your heart will be.’

At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
  ‘The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!’

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