June 24: Monday (Nativity of St. John the
Baptist): Luke 1: 57-66, 80: 57 Now the time came for
Elizabeth to be delivered, and she gave birth to a son. 58 And her neighbors
and kinsfolk heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they
rejoiced with her. 59 And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child;
and they would have named him Zechariah after his father, 60 but his mother
said, “Not so; he shall be called John.” 61 And they said to her, “None of your
kindred is called by this name.” 62 And they made signs to his father,
inquiring what he would have him called. 63 And he asked for a writing tablet,
and wrote, “His name is John.” And they all marveled. 64 And immediately his
mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God. 65 And fear
came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all
the hill country of Judea; 66 and 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.