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- Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
  
  Reading 1 NA 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7
  Responsorial Psalm DEUTERONOMY 32:35CD-36AB, 39ABCD, 41
  Gospel MT 16:24-28
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