November 11, 2012
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
We hope that today is a good day.
Today's Bible story based on the calendar of the Catholic Church.
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Most of these contents are things of The World English Bible.
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We hope that everyone in the peace of the Lord.
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+ Saints: St. Martin of Tours
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+ First Reading: 1 Kings 17:10-16
10 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, "Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink."
11 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."
12 She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."
13 Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.
14 For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, 'The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.'"
15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.
16 The jar of meal didn't run out, and the jar of oil did not fail, according to Yahweh's word, which he spoke by Elijah.
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+ Psalm: Psalms 146:7, 8-9, 9-10
7 who executes justice for the oppressed;
who gives food to the hungry.
Yahweh frees the prisoners.
8 Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind.
Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down.
Yahweh loves the righteous.
9 Yahweh preserves the foreigners.
He upholds the fatherless and widow,
but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
10 Yahweh will reign forever;
your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise Yah!
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+ Second Reading: Hebrews 9:24-28
24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
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+ Gospel: Mark 12:38-44
38 In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,
39 and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:
40 those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."
41 Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
42 A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins,* which equal a quadrans coin.†
43 He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,
44 for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."
*12:42: literally, lepta (or widow's mites). Lepta are very small brass coins worth half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker's daily wages.
†12:42: A quadrans is a coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day's wages for an agricultural laborer.
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+ Today's Reading: 1 Maccabees 1:1-24
1 AND it came to pass, after that Alexander the Macedonian, the son of Philip, who came out of the land of Chittim, and struck Darius king of the Persians and Medes, it came to pass, after he had struck him, that he reigned in his stead, in former time, over * Greece.
2 And he fought many battles, and won many strongholds, and killed the kings of the earth,
3 and went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of a multitude of nations. And the earth was quiet before him, and he was exalted, and his heart was lifted up,
4 and he gathered together an exceeding strong host, and ruled over countries and nations and principalities, and they became tributary to him.
5 And after these things he fell sick, and perceived that he should die.
6 And he called his servants, which were honorable, which had been brought up with him from his youth, and he divided to them his kingdom, while he was yet alive.
7 And Alexander reigned twelve years, and he died.
8 And his servants bare rule, each one in his place.
9 And they did all put diadems upon themselves after that he was dead, and so did their sons after them many years: and they multiplied evils in the earth.
10 And there came forth out of them a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been a hostage at Rome, and he reigned in † the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.
11 In those days came there forth out of Israel transgressors of the law, and persuaded many, saying, let us go and make a covenant with the ‡ Gentiles that are round about us; for since we were parted from them many evils have befallen us.
12 And the saying was good in their eyes.
13 And certain of the people were forward herein and went to the king, and he gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the § Gentiles.
14 And ** they built a place of exercise in Jerusalem according to the laws of the †† Gentiles;
15 and they made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the ‡‡ Gentiles, and sold themselves to do evil.
16 And the kingdom was well ordered in the sight of Antiochus, and he thought to reign over Egypt, that he might reign over the two kingdoms.
17 And he entered into Egypt with a §§ great multitude, with chariots, and with elephants, and with horsemen, and with a great *** navy;
18 and he made war against Ptolemy king of Egypt; and Ptolemy was put to shame before him, and fled; and many fell wounded to death.
19 And they got possession of the strong cities in the land of Egypt; and he took the spoils of Egypt.
20 And Antiochus, after that he had struck Egypt, returned in ††† the hundred and forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a ‡‡‡ great multitude,
21 and entered presumptuously into the sanctuary, and took the golden altar, and the candlestick of the light, and all that pertained thereto,
22 and the table of the show bread, and the cups to pour withal, and the bowls, and the golden censers, and the veil, and the crowns, and the adorning of gold which was on the face of the temple, and he scaled it all off.
23 And he took the silver and the gold and the precious vessels; and he took the hidden treasures which he found.
24 And when he had taken all, he went away into his own land, and he made a great slaughter, and spoke very presumptuously.
*1:1: That is, the Greek Empire. Compare ver. 10 and ch. vi. 2.
†1:10: circa B.C. 176.
‡1:11: Or, nations: and so throughout this book.
§1:13: Or, nations: and so throughout this book.
**1:14: See 2 Macc. iv. 9, 12.
††1:14: Or, nations: and so throughout this book.
‡‡1:15: Or, nations: and so throughout this book
§§1:17: Gr. heavy.
***1:17: Or, armament
†††1:20: circa B.C. 170. See 2 Macc. v. 11-16.
‡‡‡1:20: Gr. heavy.
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