HOLY MASS SATURDAY SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER 2023

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Saturday, 2023-05-20:

• St. Bernardine of Siena, OFM Priest 2023:

  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."

• SATURDAY SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER 2023:

  Easter Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Acts 18:23-28

  After staying in Antioch some time,
  Paul left and traveled in orderly sequence
  through the Galatian country and Phrygia,
  bringing strength to all the disciples.
  
  A Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria,
  an eloquent speaker, arrived in Ephesus.
  He was an authority on the Scriptures.
  He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord and,
  with ardent spirit, spoke and taught accurately about Jesus,
  although he knew only the baptism of John.
  He began to speak boldly in the synagogue;
  but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him,
  they took him aside
  and explained to him the Way of God more accurately.
  And when he wanted to cross to Achaia,
  the brothers encouraged him
  and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him.
  After his arrival he gave great assistance
  to those who had come to believe through grace.
  He vigorously refuted the Jews in public,
  establishing from the Scriptures that the Christ is Jesus.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  PS 47:2-3, 8-9, 10

  R. (8a) God is king of all the earth.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.
  All you peoples, clap your hands;
  shout to God with cries of gladness.
  For the LORD, the Most High, the awesome,
  is the great king over all the earth.
  R. God is king of all the earth.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.
  For king of all the earth is God;
  sing hymns of praise.
  God reigns over the nations,
  God sits upon his holy throne.
  R. God is king of all the earth.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.
  The princes of the peoples are gathered together
  with the people of the God of Abraham.
  For God’s are the guardians of the earth;
  he is supreme.
  R. God is king of all the earth.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Jn 16:23b-28

  Jesus said to his disciples:
  “Amen, amen, I say to you,
  whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
  Until now you have not asked anything in my name;
  ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
  
  “I have told you this in figures of speech.
  The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures
  but I will tell you clearly about the Father.
  On that day you will ask in my name,
  and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father for you.
  For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me
  and have come to believe that I came from God.
  I came from the Father and have come into the world.
  Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”