HOLY MASS SATURDAY ELEVENTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2023

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Saturday, 2023-06-24:

• Birth of Saint John the Baptist 2023:

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Isaiah 49:1-6

  1Listen to me, O coastlands, and hearken, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name. 2He made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me away. 3And he said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified." 4But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God." 5And now the LORD says, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might be gathered to him, for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD, and my God has become my strength -- 6he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Psalms 139:1-3, 13-15

  1O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me! 2Thou knowest when I sit down and when I rise up; thou discernest my thoughts from afar. 3Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 13For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb. 14I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well; 15my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.

  SECOND LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Acts 13:22-26

  22And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; of whom he testified and said, `I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.' 23Of this man's posterity God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised. 24Before his coming John had preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25And as John was finishing his course, he said, `What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.' 26"Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Luke 1:57-66, 80

  57Now the time came for Elizabeth to be delivered, and she gave birth to a son. 58And her neighbors and kinsfolk heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. 59And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they would have named him Zechari'ah after his father, 60but his mother said, "Not so; he shall be called John." 61And they said to her, "None of your kindred is called by this name." 62And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he would have him called. 63And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." And they all marveled. 64And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God. 65And fear came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea; 66and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, "What then will this child be?" For the hand of the Lord was with him. 80And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness till the day of his manifestation to Israel.

  Notes

  • These are the lectures for the Birth of Saint John the Baptist Mass during the day (not the vigil).

• SATURDAY ELEVENTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME 2023:

  Ordinary Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  2 Cor 12:1-10

  Brothers and sisters:
  I must boast; not that it is profitable,
  but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
  I know a man in Christ who, fourteen years ago
  (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows),
  was caught up to the third heaven.
  And I know that this man
  (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows)
  was caught up into Paradise and heard ineffable things,
  which no one may utter.
  About this man I will boast,
  but about myself I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.
  Although if I should wish to boast, I would not be foolish,
  for I would be telling the truth.
  But I refrain, so that no one may think more of me
  than what he sees in me or hears from me
  because of the abundance of the revelations.
  Therefore, that I might not become too elated,
  a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan,
  to beat me, to keep me from being too elated.
  Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it might leave me,
  but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you,
  for power is made perfect in weakness.”
  I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses,
  in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me.
  Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults,
  hardships, persecutions, and constraints,
  for the sake of Christ;
  for when I am weak, then I am strong.

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  PS 34:8-9, 10-11, 12-13

  R. (9a) Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.
  The angel of the LORD encamps
  around those who fear him, and delivers them.
  Taste and see how good the LORD is;
  blessed the man who takes refuge in him.
  R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.
  Fear the LORD, you his holy ones,
  for nought is lacking to those who fear him.
  The great grow poor and hungry;
  but those who seek the LORD want for no good thing.
  R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.
  Come, children, hear me;
  I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
  Which of you desires life,
  and takes delight in prosperous days?
  R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Matthew 6:24-34

  24"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 25"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? 28And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; 29yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? 31Therefore do not be anxious, saying, `What shall we eat?' or `What shall we drink?' or `What shall we wear?' 32For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well. 34"Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.