November 16, 2012
Friday of the Thirty-second Week 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. Joseph Moscati
St. Margaret of Scotland
St. Gertrude the Great
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+ First Reading: 2 John 4-9
4 I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
8 Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
9 Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.
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+ Psalm: Psalms 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18
1 Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to Yahweh's law.
2 Blessed are those who keep his statutes,
who seek him with their whole heart.
10 With my whole heart, I have sought you.
Don't let me wander from your commandments.
11 I have hidden your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
17 Do good to your servant.
I will live and I will obey your word.
18 Open my eyes,
that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
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+ Gospel: Luke 17:26-37
26 As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.
27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.
30 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
31 In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.
32 Remember Lot's wife!
33 Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
34 I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left.
35 There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left."
36 *
37 They, answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?"
He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together."
*17:36: Some Greek manuscripts add: "Two will be in the field: the one taken, and the other left."
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+ Today's Reading: 1 Maccabees 2:1、15-28、42-50、65-70
1 In those days rose up Mattathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem; and he lived at Modin.
15 And the king's officers, that were enforcing the apostasy, came into the city Modin to sacrifice.
16 And many of Israel came to them, and Mattathias and his sons were gathered together.
17 And the king's officers answered and spoke to Mattathias, saying, You are a ruler and an honorable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and brethren:
18 now therefore come you first and do the commandment of the king, as all the nations have done, and the men of Judah, and they that remain in Jerusalem: and you and your house shall be in the number of the king's * Friends, and you and your sons shall be honored with silver and gold and many gifts.
19 And Mattathias answered and said with a loud voice, If all the nations that are in the house of the king's dominion hearken to him, to fall away each one from the worship of his fathers, and have made choice to follow his commandments,
20 yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers.
21 ‡ Heaven forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances.
22 We will not hearken to the king's words, to go aside from our worship, on the right hand, or on the left.
23 And when he had left speaking these words, there came a Jew in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king's commandment.
24 And Mattathias saw it, and his zeal was kindled, and his reins trembled, and he showed forth his wrath according to judgement, and ran, and killed him upon the altar.
25 And the king's officer, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and pulled down the altar.
26 And he was zealous for the law, even as Phinehas did to Zimri the son of Salu.
27 And Mattathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous for the law, and maintains the covenant, let him come forth after me.
28 And he and his sons fled into the mountains, and forsook all that they had in the city.
42 Then were gathered together to them a company of ** Hasidaeans, mighty men of Israel, every one that offered himself willingly for the law.
43 And all they that fled from the evils were added to them, and became a stay to them.
44 And they mustered a host, and struck sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath: and the rest fled to the Gentiles for safety.
45 And Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled down the altars;
46 and they circumcised by force the children that were uncircumcised, as many as they found in the coasts of Israel.
47 And they pursued after the sons of pride, and the work prospered in their hand.
48 And they rescued the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of the kings, neither †† suffered they the sinner to triumph.
49 And the days of Mattathias drew near that he should die, and he said to his sons,
Now have pride and rebuke gotten strength, and a season of overthrow, and wrath of indignation.
50 And now, my children, be you? zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.
65 And, behold, Simon your brother, I know that he is a man of counsel; give ear to him always: he shall be a father to you.
66 And Judas Maccabaeus, he has been strong and mighty from his youth: he shall be your captain, and ‡‡ shall fight the battle of the people.
67 And take you? to you all the doers of the law, and avenge the wrong of your people.
68 Render a recompense to the Gentiles, and take heed to the commandments of the law.
69 And he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.
70 And he died in §§ the hundred and forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.
‡2:21: Gr. May he be propitious. Compare 2 Sam. xxiii. 17 (Sept.).
§2:38: Gr. souls of men.
**2:42: That is, Chasidim.
††2:48: Gr. gave they a horn to the sinner.
‡‡2:66: Some ancient authorities read you? shall fight.
§§2:70: circa B.C. 167.
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