Saint Damasus I, Pope
Friday • Opt Memorial
Isaiah 48:17-19
Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things, that govern thee in the way that thou walkest.O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor have been destroyed from before my face.
Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
Matthew 11:16-19
But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place.Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He hath a devil.The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.
For Today
I, Damasus, have dedicated these verses to the honor of the martyrs.