HOLY MASS THURSDAY FIRST WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2025

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Thursday, 2025-01-16:

• St. Berard, OFM, Priest and Companions, Protomartyrs 2025:

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Hebrews 4:1-5, 11

  1Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged to have failed to reach it.2For good news came to us just as to them; but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.3For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest, '"although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.4For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."5And again in this place he said, "They shall never enter my rest."11Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Psalms 78:3, 4, 6-8

  3things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. 4We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders which he has wrought. 6that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, 7so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments; 8and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Mark 2:1-12

  1And when he returned to Caper'na-um after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them. 3And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. 4And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and when they had made an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay. 5And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven." 6Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, 7"Why does this man speak thus? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?" 8And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question thus in your hearts? 9Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, `Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, `Rise, take up your pallet and walk'? 10But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -- he said to the paralytic -- 11"I say to you, rise, take up your pallet and go home." 12And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out before them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"

• THURSDAY FIRST WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2025:

  Ordinary Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Heb 3:7-14

  The Holy Spirit says:
  Oh, that today you would hear his voice,
  “Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion
  in the day of testing in the desert,
  where your ancestors tested and tried me
  and saw my works for forty years.
  Because of this I was provoked with that generation
  and I said, ‘They have always been of erring heart,
  and they do not know my ways.’
  As I swore in my wrath,
  ‘They shall not enter into my rest.’”
  Take care, brothers and sisters,
  that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart,
  so as to forsake the living God.
  Encourage yourselves daily while it is still “today,”
  so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin.
  We have become partners of Christ
  if only we hold the beginning of the reality firm until the end.
  
  

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  PS 95:6-7c, 8-9, 10-11

  R.(8) If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
  Come, let us bow down in worship;
  let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
  For he is our God,
  and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.
  R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
  Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
  “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
  as in the day of Massah in the desert,
  Where your fathers tempted me;
  they tested me though they had seen my works.”
  R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
  Forty years I was wearied of that generation;
  I said: “This people’s heart goes astray,
  they do not know my ways.”
  Therefore I swore in my anger:
  “They shall never enter my rest.”
  R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
  
  

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Mk 1:40-45

  A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said,
  "If you wish, you can make me clean."
  Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand,
  touched the leper, and said to him,
  "I do will it. Be made clean."
  The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean.
  Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him at once.
  Then he said to him, "See that you tell no one anything,
  but go, show yourself to the priest
  and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed;
  that will be proof for them."
  The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter.
  He spread the report abroad
  so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly.
  He remained outside in deserted places,
  and people kept coming to him from everywhere.