HOLY MASS FRIDAY FOURTH WEEK OF LENT 2021

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Friday, 2021-03-19:

• Saint Joseph Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2021:

  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.

• FRIDAY FOURTH WEEK OF LENT 2021:

  Time of Lent.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Wis 2:1a, 12-22

  The wicked said among themselves,
  thinking not aright:
  “Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us;
  he sets himself against our doings,
  Reproaches us for transgressions of the law
  and charges us with violations of our training.
  He professes to have knowledge of God
  and styles himself a child of the LORD.
  To us he is the censure of our thoughts;
  merely to see him is a hardship for us,
  Because his life is not like that of others,
  and different are his ways.
  He judges us debased;
  he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure.
  He calls blest the destiny of the just
  and boasts that God is his Father.
  Let us see whether his words be true;
  let us find out what will happen to him.
  For if the just one be the son of God, he will defend him
  and deliver him from the hand of his foes.
  With revilement and torture let us put him to the test
  that we may have proof of his gentleness
  and try his patience.
  Let us condemn him to a shameful death;
  for according to his own words, God will take care of him.”
  These were their thoughts, but they erred;
  for their wickedness blinded them,
  and they knew not the hidden counsels of God;
  neither did they count on a recompense of holiness
  nor discern the innocent souls’ reward.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  PS 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 and 23

  R. (19a) The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.
  The LORD confronts the evildoers,
  to destroy remembrance of them from the earth.
  When the just cry out, the LORD hears them,
  and from all their distress he rescues them.
  R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.
  The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;
  and those who are crushed in spirit he saves.
  Many are the troubles of the just man,
  but out of them all the LORD delivers him.
  R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.
  He watches over all his bones;
  not one of them shall be broken.
  The LORD redeems the lives of his servants;
  no one incurs guilt who takes refuge in him.
  R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30

  Jesus moved about within Galilee;
  he did not wish to travel in Judea,
  because the Jews were trying to kill him.
  But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.
  
  But when his brothers had gone up to the feast,
  he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret.
  
  Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said,
  “Is he not the one they are trying to kill?
  And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him.
  Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ?
  But we know where he is from.
  When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.”
  So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said,
  “You know me and also know where I am from.
  Yet I did not come on my own,
  but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true.
  I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
  So they tried to arrest him,
  but no one laid a hand upon him,
  because his hour had not yet come.