Friday, 26 June 2026 Friday, Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time – Year II Antiphons on p 963 and Readings on p 983 and of the Daily Missal

Send us Fan MailEntrance AntiphonThe Lord is the strength of his people, a saving refuge for the one he has anointed. Save your people, Lord, and bless your heritage, and govern them forever.First Reading: 2 Kings 25: 1-12A reading from the second Book of KingsIn 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 siegeworks against it round about. 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; the king with all the men of war fledby night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, though 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, who passed sentence upon him. They slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and took him to Babylon.In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month—which 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 Chalde′ans, 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.The Word of the LordResponsorial psalm: Ps 137: 1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 (R. 6ab)R./ O let my tongue cleave to my palateif I remember you not.By the rivers of Babylon there we sat and wept,remembering Sion:on the poplars that grew therewe hung up our harps.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.”O how could we sing the song of the Lord on foreign soil?If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand wither!O let my tongue cleave to my palateif I remember you not, if I prize not Jerusalemas the first of my joys! R./ O let my tongue cleave to my palateif I remember you not.Alleluia, alleluia.Christ took our infirmities and bore our diseases.Alleluia.Gospel: Matthew 8:1-4A reading from the Holy Gospel according to MatthewWhen 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 he 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 the people.”The Gospel of the LordCommunion AntiphonThe eyes of all look to you, Lord, and you give them their food in due season.