HOLY MASS WEDNESDAY FOURTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2021

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Wednesday, 2021-02-03:

• St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr 2021:

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Hebrews 12:1-4

  1Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,2looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.3Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.4In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Psalms 22:26-28, 30-32

  25From thee comes my praise in the great congregation;my vows I will pay before those who fear him. 26The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied;those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live for ever! 27All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD;and all the families of the nations shall worship before him. 29Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down;before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and he who cannot keep himself alive. 30Posterity shall serve him;men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation, 31and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, that he has wrought it.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Mark 5:21-43

  21And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him;and he was beside the sea. 22Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Ja'irus by name;and seeing him, he fell at his feet, 23and besought him, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live." 24And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. 25And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, 26and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. 27She had heard the reports about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 28For she said, "If I touch even his garments, I shall be made well." 29And immediately the hemorrhage ceased;and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. 30And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone forth from him, immediately turned about in the crowd, and said, "Who touched my garments?" 31And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, `Who touched me?'" 32And he looked around to see who had done it. 33But the woman, knowing what had been done to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him, and told him the whole truth. 34And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well;go in peace, and be healed of your disease." 35While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?" 36But ignoring what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not fear, only believe." 37And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. 38When they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, he saw a tumult, and people weeping and wailing loudly. 39And when he had entered, he said to them, "Why do you make a tumult and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping." 40And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside, and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was. 41Taking her by the hand he said to her, "Tal'itha cu'mi";which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise." 42And immediately the girl got up and walked (she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement. 43And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.

• WEDNESDAY FOURTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2021:

  Ordinary Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Heb 12:4-7, 11-15

  Brothers and sisters:
  In your struggle against sin
  you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood.
  You have also forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as children:
  My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord
  or lose heart when reproved by him;
  for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines;
  he scourges every son he acknowledges.
  Endure your trials as “discipline”;
  God treats you as his sons.
  For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?
  At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain,
  yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness
  to those who are trained by it.
  
  So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.
  Make straight paths for your feet,
  that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed.
  
  Strive for peace with everyone,
  and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
  See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God,
  that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble,
  through which many may become defiled.
  

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Ps 103:1-2, 13-14, 17-18a

  R. (see 17) The Lord’s kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.
  Bless the LORD, O my soul;
  and all my being, bless his holy name.
  Bless the LORD, O my soul,
  and forget not all his benefits.
  R. The Lord’s kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.
  As a father has compassion on his children,
  so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him,
  For he knows how we are formed;
  he remembers that we are dust.
  R. The Lord’s kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.
  But the kindness of the LORD is from eternity
  to eternity toward those who fear him,
  And his justice toward children’s children
  among those who keep his covenant.
  R. The Lord’s kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.
  

  Alleluia Jn 10:27

  R. Alleluia, alleluia.
  My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord;
  I know them, and they follow me.
  R. Alleluia, alleluia.
  

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Mk 6:1-6

  Jesus departed from there and came to his native place,
  accompanied by his disciples.
  When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue,
  and many who heard him were astonished.
  They said, "Where did this man get all this?
  What kind of wisdom has been given him?
  What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands!
  Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary,
  and the brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon?
  And are not his sisters here with us?"
  And they took offense at him.
  Jesus said to them,
  "A prophet is not without honor except in his native place
  and among his own kin and in his own house."
  So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there,
  apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them.
  He was amazed at their lack of faith.