HOLY MASS TUESDAY FIFTH WEEK OF LENT 2024

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Tuesday, 2024-03-19:

• Saint Joseph Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2024:

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  2 Samuel 7:4-5, 12-14, 16

  4But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, 5"Go and tell my servant David, `Thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house to dwell in? 12When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. 14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men; 16And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before me; your throne shall be established for ever.'"

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Psalms 89:2-5, 27, 29

  1I will sing of thy steadfast love, O LORD, for ever; with my mouth I will proclaim thy faithfulness to all generations. 2For thy steadfast love was established for ever, thy faithfulness is firm as the heavens. 3Thou hast said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant: 4`I will establish your descendants for ever, and build your throne for all generations.'" [Selah] 26He shall cry to me, `Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.' 28My steadfast love I will keep for him for ever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.

  SECOND LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22

  13The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 16That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants -- not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all, 17as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" -- in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. 18In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations; as he had been told, "So shall your descendants be." 22That is why his faith was "reckoned to him as righteousness."

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Luke 2:41-51

  41Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover. 42And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom; 43and when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, 44but supposing him to be in the company they went a day's journey, and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances; 45and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him. 46After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions; 47and all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48And when they saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously." 49And he said to them, "How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" 50And they did not understand the saying which he spoke to them. 51And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.

• TUESDAY FIFTH WEEK OF LENT 2024:

  Time of Lent.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  nm 21:4-9

  From Mount Hor the children of Israel set out on the Red Sea road,
  to bypass the land of Edom.
  But with their patience worn out by the journey,
  the people complained against God and Moses,
  “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert,
  where there is no food or water?
  We are disgusted with this wretched food!”
  
  In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents,
  which bit the people so that many of them died.
  Then the people came to Moses and said,
  “We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you.
  Pray the LORD to take the serpents away from us.”
  So Moses prayed for the people, and the LORD said to Moses,
  “Make a saraph and mount it on a pole,
  and whoever looks at it after being bitten will live.”
  Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole,
  and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent
  looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
  

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  ps 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21

  R. (2) O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you.
  O LORD, hear my prayer,
  and let my cry come to you.
  Hide not your face from me
  in the day of my distress.
  Incline your ear to me;
  in the day when I call, answer me speedily.
  R. O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you.
  The nations shall revere your name, O LORD,
  and all the kings of the earth your glory,
  When the LORD has rebuilt Zion
  and appeared in his glory;
  When he has regarded the prayer of the destitute,
  and not despised their prayer.
  R. O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you.
  Let this be written for the generation to come,
  and let his future creatures praise the LORD:
  “The LORD looked down from his holy height,
  from heaven he beheld the earth,
  To hear the groaning of the prisoners,
  to release those doomed to die.”
  R. O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you.
  

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  jn 8:21-30

  Jesus said to the Pharisees:
  “I am going away and you will look for me,
  but you will die in your sin.
  Where I am going you cannot come.”
  So the Jews said,
  “He is not going to kill himself, is he,
  because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?”
  He said to them, “You belong to what is below,
  I belong to what is above.
  You belong to this world,
  but I do not belong to this world.
  That is why I told you that you will die in your sins.
  For if you do not believe that I AM,
  you will die in your sins.”
  So they said to him, “Who are you?”
  Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning.
  I have much to say about you in condemnation.
  But the one who sent me is true,
  and what I heard from him I tell the world.”
  They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father.
  So Jesus said to them,
  “When you lift up the Son of Man,
  then you will realize that I AM,
  and that I do nothing on my own,
  but I say only what the Father taught me.
  The one who sent me is with me.
  He has not left me alone,
  because I always do what is pleasing to him.”
  Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.