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EIGHTH WEEK
OF ORDINARY TIME
CYCLE II
FRIDAY
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GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia, alleluia!
Bend my heart to your will, O Lord,
and teach me your law.
Alleluia!
OR
Alleluia, alleluia!
I chose you from the world to go out
and to bear fruit,
fruit that will last.
Alleluia!
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GOSPEL READING
MARK 11:11-26
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A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK
(MY HOUSE WILL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL PEOPLES. HAVE FAITH IN GOD.)
After he had been acclaimed by the crowds,
Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the Temple.
He looked all round him, but as it was now late,
he went to Bethany with the Twelve.
Next day as they were leaving Bethany, he felt hungry.
Seeing a fig tree in leaf some distance away,
he went to see if he could find any fruit on it,
but when he came up to it he found nothing but leaves;
for it was not the season for figs.
And he addressed the fig tree.
“May no one ever eat fruit from you again,” he said.
And his disciples heard him say this.
So they reached Jerusalem and he went into the Temple
and began driving out those who were selling and buying there;
he upset the tables of the money changers
and the chairs of those who were selling pigeons.
Nor would he allow anyone to carry anything through the Temple.
And he taught them and said,
“Does not scripture say:
My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples?
But you have turned it into a robber’s den.”
This came to the ears of the chief priest and the scribes,
and they tried to find some way of doing away with him;
they were afraid of him because the people were carried away by his teaching.
And when evening came he went out of the city.
Next morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered to the roots.
Peter remembered.
“Look, Rabbi,” he said to Jesus
“the fig tree you cursed has withered away.”
Jesus answered,
“Have faith in God.
I tell you solemnly,
if anyone says to this mountain,
‘Get up and throw yourself into the sea,’
with no hesitation in his heart but believing that what says will happen,
it will be done for him.
I tell you therefore:
everything you ask and pray for,
believe that you have it already,
and it will be yours.
And when you stand in prayer,
forgive whatever you have against anybody,
so that your Father in heaven may forgive your failings too.
But if you do not forgive,
your Father in heaven will not forgive your failings either.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
R.) Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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