Simple Liferay, Velocity, ADT code to render Journal Article HTML using the articles' default Display Template.

FriendlyJournalContentList.vm

    #set ($journalArticleService = $serviceLocator.findService("com.liferay.portlet.journal.service.JournalArticleLocalService"))

    #if (!$entries.isEmpty())
      #foreach ($curEntry in $entries)
        #set($renderer = $curEntry.getAssetRenderer() )
        #set($className = $renderer.getClassName() )

        #if( $className == "com.liferay.portlet.journal.model.JournalArticle" )

          #set ($article = $journalArticleService.getLatestArticle($curEntry.getClassPK()))
          #set ($articleId = $article.getArticleId())
          #set ($ddmTemplateKey = $article.getTemplateId())
          #set ($viewMode = $renderRequest.getPortletMode())
          #set ($languageId = $themeDisplay.getLanguageId())
          #set ($articleGroupId = $article.getGroupId())

          #set ($entryMarkup = $journalContentUtil.getContent($articleGroupId, "$articleId", "$ddmTemplateKey", "$viewMode", "$languageId", $themeDisplay))
          $entryMarkup

        #end
      #end
    #end