HOLY MASS THURSDAY TWELFTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2021

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Thursday, 2021-06-24:

• Birth of Saint John the Baptist 2021:

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Isaiah 49:1-6

  1Listen to me, O coastlands, and hearken, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name. 2He made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me;he made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me away. 3And he said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified." 4But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God." 5And now the LORD says, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might be gathered to him, for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD, and my God has become my strength -- 6he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel;I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Psalms 139:1-3, 13-15

  1O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me! 2Thou knowest when I sit down and when I rise up;thou discernest my thoughts from afar. 3Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 13For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb. 14I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well;15my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.

  SECOND LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Acts 13:22-26

  22And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king;of whom he testified and said, `I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.' 23Of this man's posterity God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised. 24Before his coming John had preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25And as John was finishing his course, he said, `What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.' 26"Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Luke 1:57-66, 80

  57Now the time came for Elizabeth to be delivered, and she gave birth to a son. 58And her neighbors and kinsfolk heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. 59And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child;and they would have named him Zechari'ah after his father, 60but his mother said, "Not so;he shall be called John." 61And they said to her, "None of your kindred is called by this name." 62And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he would have him called. 63And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." And they all marveled. 64And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God. 65And fear came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea;66and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, "What then will this child be?" For the hand of the Lord was with him. 80And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness till the day of his manifestation to Israel.

  Notes

  • These are the lectures for the Birth of Saint John the Baptist Mass during the day (not the vigil).

• THURSDAY TWELFTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2021:

  Ordinary Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  GN 16:6b-12, 15-16

  Abram told Sarai: “Your maid is in your power.
  Do to her whatever you please.”
  Sarai then abused her so much that Hagar ran away from her.
  
  The LORD’s messenger found her by a spring in the wilderness,
  the spring on the road to Shur, and he asked,
  “Hagar, maid of Sarai, where have you come from
  and where are you going?”
  She answered, “I am running away from my mistress, Sarai.”
  But the LORD’s messenger told her:
  “Go back to your mistress and submit to her abusive treatment.
  I will make your descendants so numerous,” added the LORD’s messenger,
  “that they will be too many to count.
  Besides,” the LORD’s messenger said to her:
  
  “You are now pregnant and shall bear a son;
  you shall name him Ishmael,
  For the LORD has heard you,
  God has answered you.
  
  This one shall be a wild ass of a man,
  his hand against everyone,
  and everyone’s hand against him;
  In opposition to all his kin
  shall he encamp.”
  
  Hagar bore Abram a son,
  and Abram named the son whom Hagar bore him Ishmael.
  Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
  

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Mt 7:21-29

  Jesus said to his disciples:
  "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,'
  will enter the Kingdom of heaven,
  but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
  Many will say to me on that day,
  'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name?
  Did we not drive out demons in your name?
  Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?'
  Then I will declare to them solemnly,
  'I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.'
  
  "Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them
  will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
  The rain fell, the floods came,
  and the winds blew and buffeted the house.
  But it did not collapse;it had been set solidly on rock.
  And everyone who listens to these words of mine
  but does not act on them
  will be like a fool who built his house on sand.
  The rain fell, the floods came,
  and the winds blew and buffeted the house.
  And it collapsed and was completely ruined."
  
  When Jesus finished these words,
  the crowds were astonished at his teaching,
  for he taught them as one having authority,
  and not as their scribes.