August 7 - Friday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Nah.2:1,3,3:1-3,6-7; Dt.32:35-36,39,41; Mt.16:24-28) "It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them." When the Lord comes indeed "He will repay each man according to his conduct." And the justice and judgment that are the Lord's alone are evident in His work amongst Israel and their enemies, spoken of in our first reading and psalm today. "The flame of the sword, the flash of the spear, the many slain, the heaping corpses, the endless bodies to stumble upon!" such is the graphic description of the horrors inflicted by the "bloody city" of Ninevah, of Assyria…
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