HOLY MASS TUESDAY FIRST WEEK OF LENT 2020

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Tuesday, 2020-03-03:

• St. Katharine Drexel, Virgin 2020:

  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.

• TUESDAY FIRST WEEK OF LENT 2020:

  Time of Lent.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Is 55:10-11

  Thus says the LORD:
  Just as from the heavens
  the rain and snow come down
  And do not return there
  till they have watered the earth,
  making it fertile and fruitful,
  Giving seed to the one who sows
  and bread to the one who eats,
  So shall my word be
  that goes forth from my mouth;
  It shall not return to me void,
  but shall do my will,
  achieving the end for which I sent it.
  
  

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Ps 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19

  R. (18b) From all their distress God rescues the just.
  Glorify the LORD with me,
  let us together extol his name.
  I sought the LORD, and he answered me
  and delivered me from all my fears.
  R. From all their distress God rescues the just.
  Look to him that you may be radiant with joy,
  and your faces may not blush with shame.
  When the poor one called out, the LORD heard,
  and from all his distress he saved him.
  R. From all their distress God rescues the just.
  The LORD has eyes for the just,
  and ears for their cry.
  The LORD confronts the evildoers,
  to destroy remembrance of them from the earth.
  R. From all their distress God rescues the just.
  When the just cry out, the LORD hears them,
  and from all their distress he rescues them.
  The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;
  and those who are crushed in spirit he saves.
  R. From all their distress God rescues the just.
  
  

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Mt 6:7-15

  Jesus said to his disciples:
  “In praying, do not babble like the pagans,
  who think that they will be heard because of their many words.
  Do not be like them.
  Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
  
  “This is how you are to pray:
  
  Our Father who art in heaven,
  hallowed be thy name,
  thy Kingdom come,
  thy will be done,
  on earth as it is in heaven.
  Give us this day our daily bread;
  and forgive us our trespasses,
  as we forgive those who trespass against us;
  and lead us not into temptation,
  but deliver us from evil.
  
  “If you forgive men their transgressions,
  your heavenly Father will forgive you.
  But if you do not forgive men,
  neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.”