HOLY MASS SATURDAY SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER 2024

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Saturday, 2024-05-18:

• Saint Felix Porri of Cantalice, Capuchin, Religious 2024:

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Acts 2:44-47

  44And all who believed were together and had all things in common; 45and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need. 46And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they partook of food with glad and generous hearts, 47praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Colossians 3:12-17

  12Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, 13forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

  SECOND LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Psalms 131:1-3

  1O LORD, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. 2But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a child quieted at its mother's breast; like a child that is quieted is my soul. 3O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Luke 12:22-31

  22And he said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat, nor about your body, what you shall put on. 23For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his span of life? 26If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28But if God so clothes the grass which is alive in the field today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O men of little faith! 29And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be of anxious mind. 30For all the nations of the world seek these things; and your Father knows that you need them. 31Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things shall be yours as well.

• SATURDAY SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER 2024:

  Easter Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Acts 28:16-20, 30-31

  When he entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself,
  with the soldier who was guarding him.
  
  Three days later he called together the leaders of the Jews.
  When they had gathered he said to them, “My brothers,
  although I had done nothing against our people
  or our ancestral customs,
  I was handed over to the Romans as a prisoner from Jerusalem.
  After trying my case the Romans wanted to release me,
  because they found nothing against me deserving the death penalty.
  But when the Jews objected, I was obliged to appeal to Caesar,
  even though I had no accusation to make against my own nation.
  This is the reason, then, I have requested to see you
  and to speak with you, for it is on account of the hope of Israel
  that I wear these chains.”
  
  He remained for two full years in his lodgings.
  He received all who came to him, and with complete assurance
  and without hindrance he proclaimed the Kingdom of God
  and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  PS 11:4, 5 and 7

  R. (see 7b) The just will gaze on your face, O Lord.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.
  The LORD is in his holy temple;
  the LORD’s throne is in heaven.
  His eyes behold,
  his searching glance is on mankind.
  R. The just will gaze on your face, O Lord.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.
  The LORD searches the just and the wicked;
  the lover of violence he hates.
  For the LORD is just, he loves just deeds;
  the upright shall see his face.
  R. The just will gaze on your face, O Lord.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Jn 21:20-25

  Peter turned and saw the disciple following whom Jesus loved,
  the one who had also reclined upon his chest during the supper
  and had said, “Master, who is the one who will betray you?”
  When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him?”
  Jesus said to him, “What if I want him to remain until I come?
  What concern is it of yours?
  You follow me.”
  So the word spread among the brothers that that disciple would not die.
  But Jesus had not told him that he would not die,
  just “What if I want him to remain until I come?
  What concern is it of yours?”
  
  It is this disciple who testifies to these things
  and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true.
  There are also many other things that Jesus did,
  but if these were to be described individually,
  I do not think the whole world would contain the books
  that would be written.