HOLY MASS TUESDAY TWELFTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2025

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Tuesday, 2025-06-24:

• Birth of Saint John the Baptist 2025:

  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).

• TUESDAY TWELFTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2025:

  Ordinary Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Gn 13:2, 5-18

  Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.
  
  Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents,
  so that the land could not support them if they stayed together;
  their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together.
  There were quarrels between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock
  and those of Lot’s.
  (At this time the Canaanites and the Perizzites
  were occupying the land.)
  
  So Abram said to Lot:
  “Let there be no strife between you and me,
  or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are kinsmen.
  Is not the whole land at your disposal?
  Please separate from me.
  If you prefer the left, I will go to the right;
  if you prefer the right, I will go to the left.”
  Lot looked about and saw how well watered
  the whole Jordan Plain was as far as Zoar,
  like the LORD’s own garden, or like Egypt.
  (This was before the LORD had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
  Lot, therefore, chose for himself the whole Jordan Plain
  and set out eastward.
  Thus they separated from each other;
  Abram stayed in the land of Canaan,
  while Lot settled among the cities of the Plain,
  pitching his tents near Sodom.
  Now the inhabitants of Sodom were very wicked
  in the sins they committed against the LORD.
  
  After Lot had left, the LORD said to Abram:
  “Look about you, and from where you are,
  gaze to the north and south, east and west;
  all the land that you see I will give to you
  and your descendants forever.
  I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth;
  if anyone could count the dust of the earth,
  your descendants too might be counted.
  Set forth and walk about in the land, through its length and breadth,
  for to you I will give it.”
  Abram moved his tents and went on to settle
  near the terebinth of Mamre, which is at Hebron.
  There he built an altar to the LORD.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  PS 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5

  R. (1b) He who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.
  He who walks blamelessly and does justice;
  who thinks the truth in his heart
  and slanders not with his tongue.
  R. He who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.
  Who harms not his fellow man,
  nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;
  By whom the reprobate is despised,
  while he honors those who fear the LORD.
  R. He who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.
  Who lends not his money at usury
  and accepts no bribe against the innocent.
  He who does these things
  shall never be disturbed.
  R. He who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Mt 7:6, 12-14

  Jesus said to his disciples:
  "Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine,
  lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces.
  
  "Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.
  This is the Law and the Prophets.
  
  "Enter through the narrow gate;
  for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction,
  and those who enter through it are many.
  How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life.
  And those who find it are few."