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Friday 9 May 2008
Friday of the 7th week of Eastertide

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Come, let us worship Christ the Lord, who has promised us the Holy Spirit, alleluia.

When you were young you walked when you liked: “When you were young
you walked where you liked;
but when you grow old
you will stretch out your hands,
and somebody else will take you where you would rather not go”
Christ’s prophecy seemed to the evangelist to be speaking merely of Peter’s martyrdom, but today it has much more to say to us.
In the bad old days people died young and they died, on the whole, quickly. In today’s kind world such things are receding into the past. Now we deprived, one by one, of our faculties and all the achievements that made us adult and made us human. We are taken into hospitals and imprisoned there by our weakness. We are subjected to systematic humiliation and daily petty cruelty from those who should be caring for us. We are infected with revolting diseases but prevented from dying of them. No wonder that it has been said that Purgatory contains no-one who has died in a British hospital.
Let us pray for carers, that they may lay their frustrations before Jesus and, by his grace, not take them out on those they should be caring for; or let us pray to St Peter for a death as quick and easy as his own.

Mid-morning reading (Terce)	Acts 2:32 - 36 ©
God raised this man Jesus to life, and all of us are witnesses to that. For this reason the whole House of Israel can be certain that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.

Noon reading (Sext)	Galatians 3:27 - 28 ©
All baptised in Christ, you have all clothed yourselves in Christ, and there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, but all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

Afternoon reading (None)	1 Corinthians 5:7 - 8 ©
Get rid of all the old yeast, and make yourselves into a completely new batch of bread, unleavened as you are meant to be. Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed; let us celebrate the feast, then, by getting rid of all the old yeast of evil and wickedness, having only the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

May 2008
Thu 8	Thursday of the 7th week of Eastertide
Fri 9
Sat 10
Sun 11	Pentecost
Mon 12	Monday of week 6 of the year or Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs or Saint Pancras, Martyr
Tue 13	Tuesday of week 6 of the year or Our Lady of Fátima
Wed 14	Saint Matthias, Apostle Feast
Thu 15

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Scripture readings taken from the Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright © 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd and Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. For on-line information about other Random House, Inc. books and authors, see the Internet web site at http://www.randomhouse.com.

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