Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time
Year II
28th June 2024 (Friday)
Psalter: 4
Reading of the Day
| First Reading | 2 Kings 25:1-12 |
| Response | O let my tongue cleave to my palate if I remember you not! |
| Gospel | Matthew 8:1-4 |
First Reading
2 Kings 25:1-12
In the ninth year of the reign of Zedekiah in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siege works all round it. So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him. They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon. In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. And he burned the house of the Lord and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile. But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 (R. 6abc)
R/. O let my tongue cleave to my palate if I remember you not!\
By the rivers of Babylon
there we sat and wept,
remembering Sion;
on the poplars that grew there
we hung up our harps. R/.
For it was there that they asked us,
our captors, for songs,
our oppressors, for joy.
“Sing to us,” they said,
“one of Sion’s songs.” R/.
O how could we sing
the song of the Lord
on foreign soil?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
let my right hand wither! R/.
O let my tongue
cleave to my palate
if I remember you not,
if I prize not Jerusalem
as the first of my joys. R/.
Gospel Acclamation
Matthew 8:17
V/. Alleluia
R/. Alleluia
V/. Christ took our illnesses and bore our diseases.
R/. Alleluia.
Gospel
Matthew 8:1-4
When Jesus came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”
