FRIDAY AUGUST 7, 2026

Weekday (18) SAINT SIXTUS II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs SAINT CAJETAN, Priest (Opt. Mem.)

The Sorrowful Mystery ENTRANCE ANTIPHON Ps 69: 2, 6

FIRST READING

A reading from the Book of the Prophet Nahum 1:15; 2:2; 3: 1 -3. 6-7 Woe to the bloody city. Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who proclaims peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, fulfil your vows, for never again shall the wicked come against you, he is utterly cut off. (For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have stripped them and ruined their branches.) Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and booty — no end to the plunder! The crack of whip, and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot! Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end — they stumble over the bodies! I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you an object of scorn. And all who look on you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nineveh; who will moan over her? Whence shall I seek comforters for her?

V/The word of the Lord.

R/ Thank be to God.

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