HOLY MASS MONDAY TWELFTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2024

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Monday, 2024-06-24:

• Birth of Saint John the Baptist 2024:

  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).

• MONDAY TWELFTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2024:

  Ordinary Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  2 kgs 17:5-8, 13-15a, 18

  Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, occupied the whole land
  and attacked Samaria, which he besieged for three years.
  In the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel
  the king of Assyria took Samaria,
  and deported the children of Israel to Assyria,
  setting them in Halah, at the Habor, a river of Gozan,
  and the cities of the Medes.
  
  This came about because the children of Israel sinned against the LORD,
  their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt,
  from under the domination of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
  and because they venerated other gods.
  They followed the rites of the nations
  whom the LORD had cleared out of the way of the children of Israel
  and the kings of Israel whom they set up.
  
  And though the LORD warned Israel and Judah
  by every prophet and seer,
  “Give up your evil ways and keep my commandments and statutes,
  in accordance with the entire law which I enjoined on your fathers
  and which I sent you by my servants the prophets,”
  they did not listen, but were as stiff-necked as their fathers,
  who had not believed in the LORD, their God.
  They rejected his statutes,
  the covenant which he had made with their fathers,
  and the warnings which he had given them, till,
  in his great anger against Israel,
  the LORD put them away out of his sight.
  Only the tribe of Judah was left.
  

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  ps 60:3, 4-5, 12-13

  R. (7b) Help us with your right hand, O Lord, and answer us.
  O God, you have rejected us and broken our defenses;
  you have been angry; rally us!
  R. Help us with your right hand, O Lord, and answer us.
  You have rocked the country and split it open;
  repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.
  You have made your people feel hardships;
  you have given us stupefying wine.
  R. Help us with your right hand, O Lord, and answer us.
  Have not you, O God, rejected us,
  so that you go not forth, O God, with our armies?
  Give us aid against the foe,
  for worthless is the help of men.
  R. Help us with your right hand, O Lord, and answer us.
  

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  mt 7:1-5

  Jesus said to his disciples:
  “Stop judging, that you may not be judged.
  For as you judge, so will you be judged,
  and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.
  Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye,
  but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?
  How can you say to your brother,
  ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’
  while the wooden beam is in your eye?
  You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first;
  then you will see clearly
  to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.”