MASS READINGS, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2021, General Week 12
📖GOSPEL
"His name is John"
A Reading From The Holy Gospel According To Luke (1, 57-66.80)
When the time for Elizabeth was to give birth, she gave birth to a son. Her neighbors and family heard that the Lord had shown her the greatness of his mercy, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day they came for the circumcision of the child. They wanted to call him Zacharie, after his father's name. But his mother spoke up and said, “No, his name will be John. We told him: "No one in your family has that name!" The father was asked by signs what he wanted to call him. He was given a tablet on which he wrote: “John is his name. And everyone was amazed. Instantly his mouth opened, his tongue loosened: he was speaking and he was blessing God. Fear then seized all the people in the neighborhood and, throughout the mountainous region of Judea, all these events were being recounted. Everyone who learned them kept them in their hearts and said, “What will this child be? Indeed, the hand of the Lord was with him.
The child was growing and his spirit was strengthening. He went to live in the desert until the day he made himself known to Israel.
- Let us acclaim the Word of God.
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