Readings for
Sunday, November 8, 1998
Thirty Second Sunday of Ordinary Time

First Reading

2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14 (157)

1

To came to pass also, that seven brethren, together with their mother, were apprehended, and compelled by the king to eat swine's flesh against the law, for which end they were tormented with whips and scourges.

2

But one of them, who was the eldest, said thus: What wouldst thou ask, or learn of us? we are ready to die rather than to transgress the laws of God, received from our fathers.

9

And when he was at the last gasp, he said thus: Thou indeed, O most wicked man, destroyest us out of this present life: but the King of the world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the resurrection of eternal life.

10

After him the third was made a mocking stock, and when he was required, he quickly put forth his tongue, and courageously stretched out his hands:

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And said with confidence: These I have from heaven, but for the laws of God I now despise them: because I hope to receive them again from him.

12

So that the king, and they that were with him, wondered at the young man's courage, because he esteemed the torments as nothing.

13

And after he was thus dead, they tormented the fourth in the like manner

14

And when he was now ready to die, he spoke thus: It is better, being put to death by men, to look for hope from God, to be raised up again by him: for, as to thee thou shalt have no resurrection unto life.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15

1

A Prayer of David. Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!

5

My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.

6

I call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O God; incline thy ear to me, hear my words.

8

Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me in the shadow of thy wings,

Second Reading

2 Thessalonians 2:16-3:5

2 Thessalonians 2

16

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

17

comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

2 Thessalonians 3

1

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed on and triumph, as it did among you,

2

and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not all have faith.

3

But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from evil.

4

And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things which we command.

5

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

Gospel

Luke 20:27-38 or 20:27, 34-38

27

There came to him some Sadducees, those who say that there is no resurrection,

28

and they asked him a question, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother.

29

Now there were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and died without children;

30

and the second

31

and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died.

32

Afterward the woman also died.

33

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife."

34

And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage;

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but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,

36

for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

37

But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

38

Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him."