HOLY MASS THURSDAY THIRD WEEK OF LENT 2020

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Thursday, 2020-03-19:

• Saint Joseph Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2020:

  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.

• THURSDAY THIRD WEEK OF LENT 2020:

  Time of Lent.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Jer 7:23-28

  Thus says the LORD:
  This is what I commanded my people:
  Listen to my voice;
  then I will be your God and you shall be my people.
  Walk in all the ways that I command you,
  so that you may prosper.
  
  But they obeyed not, nor did they pay heed.
  They walked in the hardness of their evil hearts
  and turned their backs, not their faces, to me.
  From the day that your fathers left the land of Egypt even to this day,
  I have sent you untiringly all my servants the prophets.
  Yet they have not obeyed me nor paid heed;
  they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their fathers.
  When you speak all these words to them,
  they will not listen to you either;
  when you call to them, they will not answer you.
  Say to them:
  This is the nation that does not listen
  to the voice of the LORD, its God,
  or take correction.
  Faithfulness has disappeared;
  the word itself is banished from their speech.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9

  R. (8) If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
  Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;
  let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation.
  Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
  let us joyfully sing psalms to him.
  R. 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.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Lk 11:14-23

  Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute,
  and when the demon had gone out,
  the mute man spoke and the crowds were amazed.
  Some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons,
  he drives out demons.”
  Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven.
  But he knew their thoughts and said to them,
  “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste
  and house will fall against house.
  And if Satan is divided against himself,
  how will his kingdom stand?
  For you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons.
  If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul,
  by whom do your own people drive them out?
  Therefore they will be your judges.
  But if it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons,
  then the Kingdom of God has come upon you.
  When a strong man fully armed guards his palace,
  his possessions are safe.
  But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him,
  he takes away the armor on which he relied
  and distributes the spoils.
  Whoever is not with me is against me,
  and whoever does not gather with me scatters.”