Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Maccabees 6:1-13
Psalm: 9:2-3,4 & 6,16b & 19

Gospel: Luke 20:27-40

In those days, some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Maccabbes 4:36-37,52-59
Psalm: 1 Chronicles 29:10,11abc,11d-12a,12bcd

Gospel: Luke 19:45-48

Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there; and he said, “It is written, “My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.” Every day he was teaching in the temple… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Maccabees 2:15-29
Psalm: 49 (50):1-2,5-6,14-15

Gospel: Luke 19:41-44

In those days, Jesus came near the city of Jerusalem and, he wept over it, saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Indeed, the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you, and hem you in on every side. They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another; because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.” 

Saint of the day: Saint Clement I, Pope and martyr Read more »

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