Saturday, November
09, 2013
32nd
Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
5:30 pm Novena to Our Lady
6:00 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
2 MACCABEES 7:1-2,
9-14
1 It also happened that seven brothers were
arrested with their mother. The king tried to force them to taste some pork,
which the Law forbids, by torturing them with whips and scourges.
2 One of them, acting as spokesman for the
others, said, 'What are you trying to find out from us? We are prepared to die
rather than break the laws of our ancestors.'
9 With his last breath he exclaimed, 'Cruel
brute, you may discharge us from this present life, but the King of the world
will raise us up, since we die for his laws, to live again for ever.'
10 After him, they tortured the third, who on
being asked for his tongue promptly thrust it out and boldly held out his
hands,
11 courageously saying, 'Heaven gave me these
limbs; for the sake of his laws I have no concern for them; from him I hope to
receive them again.'
12 The king and his
attendants were astounded at the young man's courage and his utter indifference
to suffering.
13 When this one was dead they subjected the
fourth to the same torments and tortures.
14 When he neared his end he cried, 'Ours is the
better choice, to meet death at men's hands, yet relying on God's promise that
we shall be raised up by him; whereas for you there can be no resurrection to
new life.'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 17:1, 5-6, 8,
15
1 [Prayer Of David] Listen, Yahweh, to an
upright cause, pay attention to my cry, lend an ear to my prayer, my lips free
from deceit.
5 my steps never stray from the paths you lay
down, from your tracks; so my feet never stumble.
6 I call upon you, God, for you answer me; turn
your ear to me, hear what I say.
8 Guard me as the pupil of an eye, shelter me
in the shadow of your wings
15 But I in my uprightness will see your face,
and when I awake I shall be filled with the vision of you.
Second Reading
2 THESSALONIANS 2:16,
3:5
16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God
our Father who has given us his love and, through his grace, such ceaseless
encouragement and such sure hope,
5 May the Lord turn your hearts towards the
love of God and the perseverance of Christ.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 20:27-38
27 Some Sadducees -- those who argue that there
is no resurrection -- approached him and they put this question to him,
28 'Master, Moses prescribed for us, if a man's
married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up
children for his brother.
29 Well then, there were seven brothers; the
first, having married a wife, died childless.
30 The second
31 and then the third married the widow. And the
same with all seven, they died leaving no children.
32 Finally the woman herself died.
33 Now, at the resurrection, whose wife will she
be, since she had been married to all seven?'
34 Jesus replied, 'The children of this world
take wives and husbands,
35 but those who are judged worthy of a place in
the other world and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry
36 because they can no longer die, for they are
the same as the angels, and being children of the resurrection they are
children of God.
37 And Moses himself implies that the dead rise
again, in the passage about the bush where he calls the Lord the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
38 Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the
living; for to him everyone is alive.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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