Yesus, Maria, Yusuf Pelayanan Kasih (Blessed and Saints and The Nine Choirs of Angels): 26 June 2026 (Friday) | Friday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time

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26 June 2026 (Friday) | Friday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time

26 June 2026 (Friday)

Friday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time

First Reading: 2 Kings 25:1-12
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6; ℟. 6ab
Gospel acclamation: Alleluia: Matthew 8: 17
Gospel: Matthew 8:1-4

Liturgical year 2026 (Cycle A/II)

Liturgical color: Green

Hymn

I am the holy vine,

Which God my Father tends.

Each branch that yields no fruit

My Father cuts away.

Each fruitful branch

He prunes with care

To make it yield

Abundant fruit.

If you abide in me,

I will in you abide.

Each branch to yield its fruit

Must with the vine be one.

So you shall fail

To yield your fruit

If you are not

With me one vine.

I am the fruitful vine,

And you my branches are.

He who abides in me

I will in him abide.

So shall you yield

Much fruit, but none

If you remain

Apart from me.

First Reading: 2 Kings 25:1-12
Thus was Judah exiled from her land.

(Reader) A reading from the second Book of Kings.

In the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign,
on the tenth day of the month,
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and his whole army
advanced against Jerusalem, encamped around it,
and built siege walls on every side.
The siege of the city continued until the eleventh year of Zedekiah.
On the ninth day of the fourth month,
when famine had gripped the city,
and the people had no more bread,
the city walls were breached.
Then the king and all the soldiers left the city by night
through the gate between the two walls
that was near the king’s garden.
Since the Chaldeans had the city surrounded,
they went in the direction of the Arabah.
But the Chaldean army pursued the king
and overtook him in the desert near Jericho,
abandoned by his whole army.

The king was therefore arrested and brought to Riblah
to the king of Babylon, who pronounced sentence on him.
He had Zedekiah’s sons slain before his eyes.
Then he blinded Zedekiah, bound him with fetters,
and had him brought to Babylon.

On the seventh day of the fifth month
(this was in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar,
king of Babylon),
Nebuzaradan, captain of the bodyguard,
came to Jerusalem as the representative
of the king of Babylon.
He burned the house of the LORD,
the palace of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem;
every large building was destroyed by fire.
Then the Chaldean troops who were with the captain of the guard
tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.

Then Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard,
led into exile the last of the people remaining in the city,
and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon,
and the last of the artisans.
But some of the country’s poor, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard,
left behind as vinedressers and farmers.

(Reader) The Word of the Lord.

(All) Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6
℟. (6ab) Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

By the streams of Babylon
we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
On the aspens of that land
we hung up our harps.

℟. Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

Though there our captors asked of us
the lyrics of our songs,
And our despoilers urged us to be joyous:
“Sing for us the songs of Zion!”

℟. Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

How could we sing a song of the LORD
in a foreign land?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand be forgotten!

℟. Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

May my tongue cleave to my palate
if I remember you not,
If I place not Jerusalem
ahead of my joy.

℟. Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia: Matthew 8: 17

℟. Alleluia, alleluia.

Christ took away our infirmities and bore our diseases.

℟. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel: Matthew 8:1-4

If you wish, you can make me clean.

✠ (Reader) A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew.

(All) Glory to you, O Lord.

When Jesus came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him.
And then a leper approached, did him homage, and said,
“Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.”
He stretched out his hand, touched him, and said,
“I will do it. Be made clean.”
His leprosy was cleansed immediately.
Then Jesus said to him, “See that you tell no one,
but go show yourself to the priest,
and offer the gift that Moses prescribed;
that will be proof for them.”

(Reader) The Gospel of the Lord.

(All) Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

For our reflection today:

This devotional material is suitable for all levels of society, especially for personal, family and community use. Every group and community as well as the Congregation in the Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love (Blessed and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels) are encouraged to use it freely.

The words of the Popes.

While Jesus was going about the villages of Galilee preaching, a leper came up and besought him: “If you will, you can make me clean”. Jesus did not shun contact with that man; on the contrary, impelled by deep participation in his condition, he stretched out his hand and touched the man — overcoming the legal prohibition — and said to him: “I will; be clean”.

That gesture and those words of Christ contain the whole history of salvation, they embody God’s will to heal us, to purify us from the illness that disfigures us and ruins our relationships. In that contact between Jesus’ hand and the leper, every barrier between God and human impurity, between the Sacred and its opposite, was pulled down. This was not of course in order to deny evil and its negative power, but to demonstrate that God’s love is stronger than all illness, even in its most contagious and horrible form. Jesus took upon himself our infirmities, he made himself “a leper” so that we might be cleansed.

A splendid existential comment on this Gospel is the well known experience of St Francis of Assisi. In those lepers whom Francis met when he was still “in sin” — as he says — Jesus was present; and when Francis approached one of them, overcoming his own disgust, he embraced him, Jesus healed him from his “leprosy”, namely, from his pride, and converted him to love of God. This is Christ’s victory which is our profound healing and our resurrection to new life!

(Pope Benedict XVI, Angelus, 12 February 2012)

INTERCESSIONS (Morning Prayer)

Christ is the image of the unseen God, the first-born of all creation, and the first to be born from the dead. All things are to be reconciled through him because he made peace by his death on the cross. We pray to him:
– Lord Jesus, come to us today.
We have been baptized into your death:
  may we be cleansed of greed and envy, and clothed in the strength and gentleness of your love.
– Lord Jesus, come to us today.
We have been sealed with the Holy Spirit who has been given to us;
  confirm us in your service, and help us to bear witness to you in the society in which we live.
– Lord Jesus, come to us today.
Before you suffered, you longed to eat the passover with your disciples:
  as we take part in your eucharist, may we share in your resurrection.
– Lord Jesus, come to us today.
You continue to work in your faithful people:
  create through them a new world where injustice and destruction will give way to growth, freedom and hope.

– Lord Jesus, come to us today.

Additional prayers: After these prayers have been prayed, all of you may use prayers in your own words spontaneously and according to your individual circumstances and situations.

Our Father

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us,

and lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

Concluding Prayer

Lord God,
  bestow a full measure of your grace on us
  who are gathered here in prayer.
As you work within us to keep us in the path of your commandments,
  may we receive consolation in this present life
  and eternal joys in the next.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

DISMISSAL

When a priest or deacon presides over the Office and no other Hour follows:

Priest: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your spirit.

May almighty God bless you, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

℟. Amen.

When no priest or deacon is present, or in recitation on one’s own, the conclusion is as follows:

The Lord bless us, and keep us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.

℟. Amen.

Hymn

Day is done, but Love unfailing

Dwells ever here;

Shadows fall, but hope, prevailing,

Calms every fear.

Loving Father, none forsaking,

Take our hearts, of Love’s own making,

Watch our sleeping, guard our waking,

Be always near!

Dark descends, but Light unending

Shines through our night;

You are with us, ever lending

New strength to sight;

One in love, your truth confessing,

One in hope of heaven’s blessing,

May we see, in love’s possessing,

Love’s endless light!

INTERCESSIONS (Evening Prayer)

God’s love for us was revealed when God sent into the world his only Son so that we might have life through him. We are able to love God because he loved us first. And so we pray: