HOLY MASS THURSDAY TWENTY-NINTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2025

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Thursday, 2025-10-23:

• St. John of Capistrano, OFM, Priest (Memorial) 2025:

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Ephesians 3:14-21

  14For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man, 17and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fulness of God. 20Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, 21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Psalms 33:1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 18-19

  1Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. 2Praise the LORD with the lyre, make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! 4For the word of the LORD is upright; and all his work is done in faithfulness. 5He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD. 11The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. 12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! 18Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love, 19that he may deliver their soul from death, and keep them alive in famine.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Luke 12:49-53

  49"I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled! 50I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how I am constrained until it is accomplished! 51Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division; 52for henceforth in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three; 53they will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against her mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

• THURSDAY TWENTY-NINTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2025:

  Ordinary Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Rom 6:19-23

  Brothers and sisters:
  I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature.
  For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity
  and to lawlessness for lawlessness,
  so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
  For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
  But what profit did you get then
  from the things of which you are now ashamed?
  For the end of those things is death.
  But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God,
  the benefit that you have leads to sanctification,
  and its end is eternal life.
  For the wages of sin is death,
  but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  
  

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6

  R. (Ps 40:5) Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
  Blessed the man who follows not
  the counsel of the wicked
  Nor walks in the way of sinners,
  nor sits in the company of the insolent,
  But delights in the law of the LORD
  and meditates on his law day and night.
  R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
  He is like a tree
  planted near running water,
  That yields its fruit in due season,
  and whose leaves never fade.
  Whatever he does, prospers.
  R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
  Not so the wicked, not so;
  they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
  For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
  but the way of the wicked vanishes.
  R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
  
  

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Lk 12:49-53

  Jesus said to his disciples:
  "I have come to set the earth on fire,
  and how I wish it were already blazing!
  There is a baptism with which I must be baptized,
  and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
  Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?
  No, I tell you, but rather division.
  From now on a household of five will be divided,
  three against two and two against three;
  a father will be divided against his son
  and a son against his father,
  a mother against her daughter
  and a daughter against her mother,
  a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
  and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."