Saturday, November 05,
2016
32nd Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Second 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
Second 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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