Daily Gospel for Friday. Daily Readings & prayer, November 20, 2020

Daily Readings for the Holy Gospel, November 20, 2020. Reflection on daily Gospel of Luke 19,45-48 - Let us meditate through the Pope´s reflections to Holy Gospel. "We must learn the Word of God with mercy and know how to transmit it". Daily Readings and the daily Prayer for your life to get serenity and inner peace on Friday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time.

Serenity prayer for November 20.

Dear Father, You who make everything new, I ask You to come and act in my heart at this moment and fill me with all the joy and peace I need to move forward. Thank you for touching every part of me and making me feel that I can give so much more of myself by counting on the talents you have given me. Amen.

Readings for Friday.

First Reading for daily Gospel: Reading from the book of Apocalypse 10,8-11: "Devour the scriptures and start preaching".

"I, John, heard the voice I had heard from heaven speaking to me again. "Go," it said "and take that open scroll out of the hand of the angel standing on sea and land." I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll, and he said, "Take it and eat it; it will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey." So, I took it out of the angel´s hand, and swallowed it; it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach turned sour. Then I was told, "You are to prophesy again, this time about many different nations and countries and languages and emperors."

Daily Psalm for Friday.

Psalm 118(119):14,24,72,103,111,131: "Your promise is sweet to my taste, O Lord." (R).

Daily Gospel Acclamation.

"Alleluia, alleluia! The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice, says the Lord, I know them, and they follow me. Alleluia" (Daily readings for today extracted of Jn 10,27.)

Daily Gospel for November 20. Luke 19,45-48.

Daily readings Friday, Gospel for November 20 (The expulsion of the merchants from the temple and the plot of the Pharisees): "At that time, Jesus went into the Temple and began driving out those who were selling. "According to scripture," he said "my house will be a house of prayer. But you have turned it into a robbers" den. "He taught in the Temple every day. The chief priests and the scribes, with the support of the leading citizens, tried to do away with him, but they did not see how they could carry this out because the people as a whole hung on his words". (The daily readings and the Holy Gospel, on this page, are from the Jerusalem Bible)

Daily Readings reflection, by Pope Francis.

"Pope Francis: Our faith should never be a business"

In the daily Readings, we see that the exploiters, the speculators of the temple, exploit even the sacred place of God to do business: they exchange the coins, sell the animals for sacrifice, they also have like a union among themselves to defend themselves. And this was not only tolerated, but even allowed by the temple priests. They are those who make religion a business.

In the Bible there is the story of the sons of a priest who induced people to give offers and earned so much, even with the poor. And Jesus does not spare his words: "My house shall be called a house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves".

The people who went there on pilgrimage to ask the Lord´s blessing, to make a sacrifice: there, those people were exploited! Through daily reading, we observe that the priests there did not teach them how to pray, they did not give them the catechesis, it was a cave of thieves. They paid, they entered, they performed empty rites, without mercy.

I don´t know if it will do us any good to think if something of this kind happens among us somewhere. I don´t know. This is using the things of God for our benefit.

(...) Ask the Lord to help you do good things, but with faith. Only on one condition: when you start praying for this, if you have something against someone, forgive. This is the only condition, so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your sins.

Let us ask the Lord today to teach us this way of life of faith and to help us, each one of us, the Church, never to fall into sterility and speculation. (Daily Readings reflection, St. Martha, May 29, 2015.).

Daily Prayer for Gospel.

Lord, today I want to confess that the vanities of the world have led me down paths of sadness and pain. I have stained the temple of my body with cold banalities. Help me to purify it and make it livable for when you come into my life with justice. I give you my soul, my spirit, my mind and my stained and wounded heart, so that you may restore them with your love. Heal me with your mercy. Amen. (Healing with the serenity prayer for daily readings and Holy Gospel)

The Pope´s daily quotation.

"The earth and its poor urgently demand a sound economy and a sustainable development. Therefore, we are called to rethink our mental and moral priorities so that they are in conformity with God´s commandments and the common good". Pope Francis.

Purpose for daily Gospel.

I will offer 1 Our Father for the conversion of a family member who is reluctant to attend Mass or hear God´s message.

Video of the daily Readings.

Enjoy now the video meditation for the daily readings for Friday on November 20, 2020. Luke 19,45-48. "There is sweetness in speaking of Jesus, but it is bitter in finding deaf ears". Holy Gospel and daily prayer of the 33rd week in Ordinary Time.

Serenity prayer for Friday.

You can meditate now with the serenity prayer for Friday, November 20, 2020. May the Lord always grant us serenity and peace.

"Even though you may be going through dark ravines, you will come out with a great victory assured as you have come out of many other difficult and complicated situations that have stolen your peace. Do you know why? Because you have made God your ally and friend. His providence will not fail you and his love will cover everything in your home. Always reserve a place for Him in your heart. Amen" 

Map of readings for the day.

• Initial Serenity Prayer.

• Daily readings.

• Holy Gospel Reading.

• Pope reflection.

• Daily Prayer for Gospel.

• Daily Gospel Purpose.

• Video meditation for the Gospel.

• Final serenity prayer

Daily Gospel Intentions for November 20.

With the catholic daily readings of the Holy Gospel of Luke 19,45-48, let us pray for all those prayer intentions for today, Friday, that you wish to express. When you meditate on the daily readings, you deepen your personal relationship with God and grow in love. "There is sweetness in discovering Truth, but there is bitterness in discovering that the world wants nothing to do with God; it is bitter to find deaf ears, resistance, harshness, mockery, and violence". Pray with the daily prayer. Write down in the commentaries all that you want God to give you or heal you through the reading of his Word in the daily Readings for November 20, 2020. God blesses you.