HOLY MASS THURSDAY SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER 2021

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Thursday, 2021-05-20:

• St. Bernardine of Siena, OFM Priest 2021:

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Acts 4:8-12

  8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders, 9if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a cripple, by what means this man has been healed, 10be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man is standing before you well. 11This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, but which has become the head of the corner. 12And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Psalms 40:2, 4, 7-11

  1I waited patiently for the LORD;he inclined to me and heard my cry. 3He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD. 6Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire;but thou hast given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not required. 7Then I said, "Lo, I come;in the roll of the book it is written of me;8I delight to do thy will, O my God;thy law is within my heart." 9I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation;lo, I have not restrained my lips, as thou knowest, O LORD. 10I have not hid thy saving help within my heart, I have spoken of thy faithfulness and thy salvation;I have not concealed thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness from the great congregation.

  SECOND LECTURE OF THE MASS

  John 17:11-19

  11And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. 12While I was with them, I kept them in thy name, which thou hast given me;I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13But now I am coming to thee;and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14I have given them thy word;and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15I do not pray that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17Sanctify them in the truth;thy word is truth. 18As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Luke 9:57-62

  57As they were going along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go." 58And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests;but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head." 59To another he said, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." 60But he said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead;but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God." 61Another said, "I will follow you, Lord;but let me first say farewell to those at my home." 62Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

• THURSDAY SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER 2021:

  Easter Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Acts 22:30;23:6-11

  Wishing to determine the truth
  about why Paul was being accused by the Jews,
  the commander freed him
  and ordered the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to convene.
  Then he brought Paul down and made him stand before them.
  
  Paul was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees,
  so he called out before the Sanhedrin,
  “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees;
  I am on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead.”
  When he said this,
  a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees,
  and the group became divided.
  For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection
  or angels or spirits,
  while the Pharisees acknowledge all three.
  A great uproar occurred,
  and some scribes belonging to the Pharisee party
  stood up and sharply argued,
  “We find nothing wrong with this man.
  Suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
  The dispute was so serious that the commander,
  afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them,
  ordered his troops to go down and rescue Paul from their midst
  and take him into the compound.
  The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage.
  For just as you have borne witness to my cause in Jerusalem,
  so you must also bear witness in Rome.”

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  PS 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11

  R. (1) Keep me safe, O God;you are my hope.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.
  Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge;
  I say to the LORD, “My Lord are you.”
  O LORD, my allotted portion and my cup,
  you it is who hold fast my lot.
  R. Keep me safe, O God;you are my hope.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.
  I bless the LORD who counsels me;
  even in the night my heart exhorts me.
  I set the LORD ever before me;
  with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.
  R. Keep me safe, O God;you are my hope.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.
  Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices,
  my body, too, abides in confidence;
  Because you will not abandon my soul to the nether world,
  nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption.
  R. Keep me safe, O God;you are my hope.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.
  You will show me the path to life,
  fullness of joys in your presence,
  the delights at your right hand forever.
  R. Keep me safe, O God;you are my hope.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Jn 17:20-26

  Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying:
  “I pray not only for these,
  but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
  so that they may all be one,
  as you, Father, are in me and I in you,
  that they also may be in us,
  that the world may believe that you sent me.
  And I have given them the glory you gave me,
  so that they may be one, as we are one,
  I in them and you in me,
  that they may be brought to perfection as one,
  that the world may know that you sent me,
  and that you loved them even as you loved me.
  Father, they are your gift to me.
  I wish that where I am they also may be with me,
  that they may see my glory that you gave me,
  because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
  Righteous Father, the world also does not know you,
  but I know you, and they know that you sent me.
  I made known to them your name and I will make it known,
  that the love with which you loved me
  may be in them and I in them.”