Friday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time

And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand. ²And he laid hold on the dragon the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. ³And he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should no more seduce the nations, till the thousand years be finished. And after that, he must be loosed a little time. ⁴And I saw seats; and they sat upon them; and judgment was given unto them; and the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who had not adored the beast nor his image, nor received his character on their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. ¹¹And I saw a great white throne, and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away, and there was no place found for them. ¹²And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne, and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works. ¹³And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them; and they were judged every one according to their works. ¹⁴And hell and death were cast into the pool of fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the pool of fire.

¹And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone, and the sea is now no more. ²And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

³My soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God. ⁴For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God. ⁵Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall praise thee for ever and ever. ⁶Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, ⁸For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

℟ Behold the tabernacle of God with men.

And he spoke to them in a similitude. See the fig tree, and all the trees: ³⁰When they now shoot forth their fruit, you know that summer is nigh; ³¹So you also, when you shall see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is at hand. ³²Amen, I say to you, this generation shall not pass away, till all things be fulfilled. ³³Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.