Friday of the Twenty‑sixth week in Ordinary Time

First Reading: Baruch 1:15-22
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 79:1-2, 3-5, 8, 9
Gospel: Luke 10:13-16

First Reading
Baruch 1:15-22
Righteousness belongs to the Lord our God, but shame, as at this day, to us, to the people of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to our kings and our princes and our priests and our prophets and our fathers, because we have sinned before the Lord and have disobeyed him and have not heeded the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the statutes of the Lord that he set before us. From the day when the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have been negligent, in not heeding his voice. So to this day there have clung to us the calamities and the curse that the Lord declared through Moses his servant at the time when he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey. We did not heed the voice of the Lord our God in all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us. but we each followed the intent of his own wicked heart by serving other gods and doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord our God.

The word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 79:1-2, 3-5, 8, 9
R. For the sake of the glory of your name, free us O Lord.

O God, the nations have invaded your heritage; they have profaned your holy temple. They have made Jerusalem a heap of ruins. They have handed over the bodies of your servants as food to feed the birds of heaven, and the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.
R. For the sake of the glory of your name, free us O Lord.

They have poured out their blood like water round Jerusalem; no one is left to bury the dead. We have become the taunt of our neighbours, the mockery and scorn of those around us. How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealous anger burn like fire?
R. For the sake of the glory of your name, free us O Lord.

Do not remember against us the guilt of former times. Let your compassion hasten to meet us; for we have been brought very low.
R. For the sake of the glory of your name, free us O Lord.

Help us, O God our saviour, for the sake of the glory of your name. Free us and forgive us our sins, because of your name.
R. For the sake of the glory of your name, free us O Lord.

Gospel
Luke 10:13-16
At that time:Jesus said, “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more bearable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. “The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

The Gospel of the Lord.