HOLY MASS WEDNESDAY SECOND WEEK OF LENT 2025

You can install our extension of the liturgical cycle on your site Blogger, Wordpress and Joomla.

The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Wednesday, 2025-03-19:

• Saint Joseph Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2025:

  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.

• WEDNESDAY SECOND WEEK OF LENT 2025:

  Time of Lent.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Jer 18:18-20

  The people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem said,
  “Come, let us contrive a plot against Jeremiah.
  It will not mean the loss of instruction from the priests,
  nor of counsel from the wise, nor of messages from the prophets.
  And so, let us destroy him by his own tongue;
  let us carefully note his every word.”
  
  Heed me, O LORD,
  and listen to what my adversaries say.
  Must good be repaid with evil
  that they should dig a pit to take my life?
  Remember that I stood before you
  to speak in their behalf,
  to turn away your wrath from them.
  
  

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Ps 31:5-6, 14, 15-16

  R. (17b) Save me, O Lord, in your kindness.
  You will free me from the snare they set for me,
  for you are my refuge.
  Into your hands I commend my spirit;
  you will redeem me, O LORD, O faithful God.
  R. Save me, O Lord, in your kindness.
  I hear the whispers of the crowd, that frighten me from every side,
  as they consult together against me, plotting to take my life.
  R. Save me, O Lord, in your kindness.
  But my trust is in you, O LORD;
  I say, “You are my God.”
  In your hands is my destiny; rescue me
  from the clutches of my enemies and my persecutors.
  R. Save me, O Lord, in your kindness.
  
  

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Mt 20:17-28

  As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem,
  he took the Twelve disciples aside by themselves,
  and said to them on the way,
  “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem,
  and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests
  and the scribes,
  and they will condemn him to death,
  and hand him over to the Gentiles
  to be mocked and scourged and crucified,
  and he will be raised on the third day.”
  
  Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached Jesus with her sons
  and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something.
  He said to her, “What do you wish?”
  She answered him,
  “Command that these two sons of mine sit,
  one at your right and the other at your left, in your kingdom.”
  Jesus said in reply,
  “You do not know what you are asking.
  Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?”
  They said to him, “We can.”
  He replied,
  “My chalice you will indeed drink,
  but to sit at my right and at my left,
  this is not mine to give
  but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
  When the ten heard this,
  they became indignant at the two brothers.
  But Jesus summoned them and said,
  “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them,
  and the great ones make their authority over them felt.
  But it shall not be so among you.
  Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant;
  whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave.
  Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve
  and to give his life as a ransom for many.”