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HOLY MASS THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT 2024

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Sunday, 2024-03-03:

  • St. Katharine Drexel, Virgin 2024:

    FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

    Isaiah 1:10, 16-20

    10Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomor'rah! 16Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, 17learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18"Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 19If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; 20But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

    RESPONSORIAL PSALM

    Psalms 50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23

    8I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me. 9I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds. 16But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips? 17For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. 21These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you. 23He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!"

    GOSPEL OF THE MASS

    Matthew 23:1-12

    1Then said Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples, 2"The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat; 3so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice. 4They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. 5They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, 6and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues, 7and salutations in the market places, and being called rabbi by men. 8But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. 9And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ. 11He who is greatest among you shall be your servant; 12whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

  • THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT 2024:

    Time of Lent.

    FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

    Ex 20:1-3, 7-8, 12-17

    In those days, God delivered all these commandments:
    "I, the LORD am your God,
    who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.
    You shall not have other gods besides me.
    "You shall not take the name of the LORD, your God, in vain.
    For the LORD will not leave unpunished
    the one who takes his name in vain.
    "Remember to keep holy the sabbath day.
    Honor your father and your mother,
    that you may have a long life in the land
    which the Lord, your God, is giving you.
    You shall not kill.
    You shall not commit adultery.
    You shall not steal.
    You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
    You shall not covet your neighbor's house.
    You shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
    nor his male or female slave, nor his ox or ass,
    nor anything else that belongs to him."

    RESPONSORIAL PSALM

    Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11

    R. (John 6:68c)
    Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.
    The law of the LORD is perfect,
    refreshing the soul;
    The decree of the LORD is trustworthy,
    giving wisdom to the simple.
    R.Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.
    The precepts of the LORD are right,
    rejoicing the heart;
    the command of the LORD is clear,
    enlightening the eye.
    R.Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.
    The fear of the LORD is pure,
    enduring forever;
    the ordinances of the LORD are true,
    all of them just.
    R.Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.
    They are more precious than gold,
    than a heap of purest gold;
    sweeter also than syrup
    or honey from the comb.
    R.Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.

    SECOND LECTURE OF THE MASS

    1 Cor 1:22-25

    Brothers and sisters:
    Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom,
    but we proclaim Christ crucified,
    a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
    but to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike,
    Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
    For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom,
    and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

    GOSPEL OF THE MASS

    Jn 2:13-25

    Since the Passover of the Jews was near,
    Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
    He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves,
    as well as the money changers seated there.
    He made a whip out of cords
    and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen,
    and spilled the coins of the money changers
    and overturned their tables,
    and to those who sold doves he said,
    "Take these out of here,
    and stop making my Father's house a marketplace."
    His disciples recalled the words of Scripture,
    Zeal for your house will consume me.
    At this the Jews answered and said to him,
    "What sign can you show us for doing this?"
    Jesus answered and said to them,
    "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up."
    The Jews said,
    "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years,
    and you will raise it up in three days?"
    But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
    Therefore, when he was raised from the dead,
    his disciples remembered that he had said this,
    and they came to believe the Scripture
    and the word Jesus had spoken.
    While he was in Jerusalem for the feast of Passover,
    many began to believe in his name
    when they saw the signs he was doing.
    But Jesus would not trust himself to them because he knew them all,
    and did not need anyone to testify about human nature.
    He himself understood it well.

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