A reading from the second Book of Maccabees 7:1 -2. 9-14
The King of the world will raise us up to live again for ever.
There were seven brothers who were arrested with their mother.
The king tried to force them to taste pig’s flesh, which the Law
forbids, by torturing them with whips and scourges. 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.’
With his last breath he exclaimed, ‘Inhuman fiend, you may
discharge us from this present life, but the King of the world will
raise us up, since it is for his laws that we die, to live again for ever’.
After him, they amused themselves with the third, who on being
asked for his tongue promptly thrust it out and boldly held out his
hands, with these honourable words, ‘it was heaven that gave me
these limbs; for the sake of his laws I disdain them; from him I hope
to receive them again’. The king and his attendants were
astounded at the young man’s courage and his utter indifference
to suffering.
When this one was dead they subjected the fourth to the same
savage torture. 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, no new life’.
The Word of the Lord
Responorial Psalm Ps 16
Response: I shall be filled, when I awake,
with the sight of your glory, O Lord.
1. Lord, hear a cause that is just,
pay heed to my cry.
Turn your ear to my prayer:
no deceit is on my lips. Response
2. I kept my feet firmly in your paths;
there was no faltering in my steps.
I am here and I call, you will hear me, O God.
Turn your ear to me; hear my words. Response
3. Guard me as the apple of your eye.
Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
As for me, in my justice I shall see your face
and be filled, when I awake, with the sight of your glory. Response
SECOND READING
A reading from the second letter of St Paul to the Thessalonians 2:16 – 3:5
May the Lord strengthen you in everything good that you do or say.
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who has
given us his love and, through his grace, such inexhaustible
comfort and such sure hope, comfort you and strengthen you in
everything good that you do or say.
Finally, brothers, pray for us; pray that the Lord’s message may
spread quickly, and be received with honour as it was among
you; and pray that we may be preserved from the interference of
bigoted and evil people, for faith is not given to everyone. But the
Lord is faithful, and he will give you strength and guard you from
the evil one, and we, in the Lord, have every confidence that you
are doing and will go on doing all that we tell you. May the Lord
turn your hearts towards the love of God and the fortitude of
Christ.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation Lk 21: 36
Alleluia, alleluia!
Stay awake, praying at all times
for the strength to stand with confidence
before the Son of Man.
Alleluia!
Or Apoc 1: 5
Alleluia, alleluia!
Jesus Christ, is the First-born from the dead,
to him be glory and power for ever and ever.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 20: 27-38
He is God, not of the dead, but of the living.
Some Sadducees - those who say that there is no resurrection approached
him and they put this question to him, ‘Master, we
have it from Moses in writing, that if a man’s married brother dies
childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his
brother. Well then, there were seven brothers. The first, having
married a wife, died childless. The second and then the third
married the widow. And the same with all seven, they died
leaving no children. Finally the woman herself died. Now, at the
resurrection, to which of them will she be wife since she had been
married to all seven?’
Jesus replied, ‘The children of this world take wives and husbands,
but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world
and if’ the resurrection from the dead do not marry because they
can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being
children of the resurrection they are sons of God. 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. Now he is God, not of the dead, but
of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive.’
The Gospel of the Lord
Gospel (Shorter form)
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 20:27. 34-38
He is God, not of the dead, but of the living.
Some Sadducees — those who say that there is no resurrection —
approached Jesus and they put a question to him.
Jesus replied, ‘The children of this world take wives and husbands,
but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world
and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry because they
can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being
children of the resurrection they are sons of God. 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. Now he is God, not of the dead, but
of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive.’
The Gospel of the Lord
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