HOLY MASS FRIDAY SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT 2024

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Friday, 2024-12-13:

• St. Lucy, Virgin, Martyr (Memorial) 2024:

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  2 Corinthians 10:17--11:2

  1017"Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord." 18For it is not the man who commends himself that is accepted, but the man whom the Lord commends.111I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! 2I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to Christ to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Psalms 31:3-4, 6, 8, 16-17

  2Incline thy ear to me, rescue me speedily! Be thou a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me! 3Yea, thou art my rock and my fortress; for thy name's sake lead me and guide me, 5Into thy hand I commit my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God. 7I will rejoice and be glad for thy steadfast love, because thou hast seen my affliction, thou hast taken heed of my adversities, 15My times are in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors! 16Let thy face shine on thy servant; save me in thy steadfast love!

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Matthew 25:1-13

  1"Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; 4but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5As the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. 6But at midnight there was a cry, `Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.' 7Then all those maidens rose and trimmed their lamps. 8And the foolish said to the wise, `Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' 9But the wise replied, `Perhaps there will not be enough for us and for you; go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.' 10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door was shut. 11Afterward the other maidens came also, saying, `Lord, lord, open to us.' 12But he replied, `Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.' 13Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

• FRIDAY SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT 2024:

  Advent Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Is 48:17-19

  Thus says the LORD, your redeemer,
  the Holy One of Israel:
  I, the LORD, your God,
  teach you what is for your good,
  and lead you on the way you should go.
  If you would hearken to my commandments,
  your prosperity would be like a river,
  and your vindication like the waves of the sea;
  Your descendants would be like the sand,
  and those born of your stock like its grains,
  Their name never cut off
  or blotted out from my presence.
  
  

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6

  R. (see John 8:12) Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life.
  Blessed the man who follows not
  the counsel of the wicked
  Nor walks in the way of sinners,
  nor sits in the company of the insolent,
  But delights in the law of the LORD
  and meditates on his law day and night.
  R. Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life.
  He is like a tree
  planted near running water,
  That yields its fruit in due season,
  and whose leaves never fade.
  Whatever he does, prospers.
  R. Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life.
  Not so the wicked, not so;
  they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
  For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
  but the way of the wicked vanishes.
  R. Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life.
  
  

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Mt 11:16-19

  Jesus said to the crowds:
  “To what shall I compare this generation?
  It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another,
  ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance,
  we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.’
  For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said,
  ‘He is possessed by a demon.’
  The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said,
  ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard,
  a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’
  But wisdom is vindicated by her works.”