HOLY MASS FRIDAY SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER 2023

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Friday, 2023-05-19:

• Saint Crispin of Viterbo, Religious 2023:

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Acts 20:17-27

  17And from Mile'tus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church. 18And when they came to him, he said to them: "You yourselves know how I lived among you all the time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, 19serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which befell me through the plots of the Jews; 20how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, 21testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance to God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. 22And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, bound in the Spirit, not knowing what shall befall me there; 23except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. 24But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. 25And now, behold, I know that all you among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom will see my face no more. 26Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all of you, 27for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Psalms 68:10-11, 20-21

  9Rain in abundance, O God, thou didst shed abroad; thou didst restore thy heritage as it languished; 10thy flock found a dwelling in it; in thy goodness, O God, thou didst provide for the needy. 19Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. [Selah] 20Our God is a God of salvation; and to GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  John 17:1-11

  1When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son that the Son may glorify thee, 2since thou hast given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. 3And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. 4I glorified thee on earth, having accomplished the work which thou gavest me to do; 5and now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory which I had with thee before the world was made. 6"I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world; thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word. 7Now they know that everything that thou hast given me is from thee; 8for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine; 10all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

• FRIDAY SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER 2023:

  Easter Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Acts 18:9-18

  One night while Paul was in Corinth, the Lord said to him in a vision,
  “Do not be afraid.
  Go on speaking, and do not be silent, for I am with you.
  No one will attack and harm you,
  for I have many people in this city.”
  He settled there for a year and a half
  and taught the word of God among them.
  
  But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia,
  the Jews rose up together against Paul
  and brought him to the tribunal, saying,
  “This man is inducing people to worship God contrary to the law.”
  When Paul was about to reply, Gallio spoke to the Jews,
  “If it were a matter of some crime or malicious fraud,
  I should with reason hear the complaint of you Jews;
  but since it is a question of arguments over doctrine and titles
  and your own law, see to it yourselves.
  I do not wish to be a judge of such matters.”
  And he drove them away from the tribunal.
  They all seized Sosthenes, the synagogue official,
  and beat him in full view of the tribunal.
  But none of this was of concern to Gallio.
  
  Paul remained for quite some time,
  and after saying farewell to the brothers he sailed for Syria,
  together with Priscilla and Aquila.
  At Cenchreae he had shaved his head because he had taken a vow.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  PS 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7

  R. (8a) God is king of all the earth.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.
  All you peoples, clap your hands,
  shout to God with cries of gladness,
  For the LORD, the Most High, the awesome,
  is the great king over all the earth.
  R. God is king of all the earth.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.
  He brings people under us;
  nations under our feet.
  He chooses for us our inheritance,
  the glory of Jacob, whom he loves.
  R. God is king of all the earth.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.
  God mounts his throne amid shouts of joy;
  the LORD, amid trumpet blasts.
  Sing praise to God, sing praise;
  sing praise to our king, sing praise.
  R. God is king of all the earth.
  or:
  R. Alleluia.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Jn 16:20-23

  Jesus said to his disciples:
  “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn,
  while the world rejoices;
  you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.
  When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived;
  but when she has given birth to a child,
  she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy
  that a child has been born into the world.
  So you also are now in anguish.
  But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice,
  and no one will take your joy away from you.
  On that day you will not question me about anything.
  Amen, amen, I say to you,
  whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.”