First Reading - 2 Mc 7:1-2.9-14
It happened that seven
brothers with their mother
were arrested and tortured
with whips and scourges by
the king, to force them to eat
pork in violation of God’s law.
One of the brothers, speaking
for the others, said: “What do
you expect to achieve by questioning us? We are ready to die
rather than transgress the laws
of our ancestors.”
At the point of death, he
said: “You accursed fi end! You
are depriving us of this present
life, but the King of the world
will raise us up to live again
forever. It is for his laws that
we are dying.”
After him, the third suffered their cruel sport. He put
out his tongue at once when
told to do so, and bravely held
out his hands, as he spoke these
noble words: “It was from
Heaven that I received these.
For the sake of his laws I disdain them. From him I hope to
receive them again.”
Even the king and his attendants marveled at the young
man’s courage, because he regarded his sufferings as nothing.
After he had died, they tortured and maltreated the
fourth brother in the same way.
When he was near death, he
said, “It is my choice to die at
the hands of men with the hope
God gives of being raised up by
him; but for you, there will be
no resurrection to life.”
Responsorial Psalm - Ps 17
R –Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full!
* Hear, O Lord, a just suit;
attend to my outcry. Hearken
to my prayer from lips without
deceit. R.
* My steps have been steadfast in your paths, my feet have
not faltered. I call upon you,
for you will answer me, O God.
Incline your ear to me; hear my
word. R.
* Keep me as the apple of
your eye, hide me in the shadow
of your wings. But I in justice
shall behold your face; on waking I shall be content in your
presence. R.
Second Reading - 2 Thes 2:16-3:5
Brothers and sisters:
May our Lord Jesus Christ
himself and God our Father,
who has loved us and given us
everlasting encouragement and
good hope through his grace,
encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good
deed and word.
Finally, brothers and sisters, pray for us, so that the
word of the Lord may speed
forward and be glorified, as
it did among you, and that we
may be delivered from perverse and wicked people, for
not all have faith.
But the Lord is faithful. He
will strengthen you and guard
you from the evil one.
We are confident of you in
the Lord that what we instruct
you, you are doing and will
continue to do.
May the Lord direct your
hearts to the love of God and to
the endurance of Christ.
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Jesus Christ is the firstborn of the dead; to him
be glory and power, forever and ever.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Gospel - Lk 20:27-38
Some Sadducees, those
who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and
put this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for
us, ‘If someone’s brother dies
leaving a wife but no child, his
brother must take the wife and
raise up descendants for his
brother.’ Now there were seven
brothers. The first married
a woman but died childless.
Then the second and the third
married her, and likewise all
the seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. Now, at
the resurrection, whose wife
will that woman be? For all
seven had been married to her.”
Jesus said to them, “The
children of this age marry and
remarry; but those who are
deemed worthy to attain to
the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither
marry nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die,
for they are like angels; and
they are the children of God
because they are the ones who
will rise. That the dead will
rise even Moses made known
in the passage about the bush,
when he called the Lord ‘the
God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
He is not God of the dead, but
of the living, for to him all are
alive.”
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