November 19, 2012
Monday of the Thirty-third 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. Raphael Kalinowski
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+ First Reading: Revelation 1:1-4; 2:1-5
1:1 This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel* to his servant, John,
2 who testified to God's word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.
3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.
4 John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;
2:1 "To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write:
"He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:
2 "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
3 You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have * not grown weary.
4 But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
*1:1: or, messenger (here and wherever angel is mentioned)
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+ Psalm: Psalms 1:1-4, 6
1 Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stand on the path of sinners,
nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in Yahweh's*"Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations. law.
On his law he meditates day and night.
3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,
that produces its fruit in its season,
whose leaf also does not wither.
Whatever he does shall prosper.
4 The wicked are not so,
but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked shall perish.
*1:2: "Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations.
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+ Gospel: Luke 18:35-43
35 As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. 36 Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.
37 They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.
38 He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!"
39 Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"
40 Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him, 41 "What do you want me to do?"
He said, "Lord, that I may see again."
42 Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you."
43 Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
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+ Today's Reading: 2 Maccabees 12:32-45
32 But after the feast called Pentecost they marched in haste against Gorgias the governor of Idumaea:
33 and he came out with three thousand footmen and four hundred horsemen.
34 And when they had set themselves in array, it came to pass that a few of the Jews fell.
35 And a certain Dositheus, one § of Bacenor's company, who was on horseback and a strong man, pressed hard on Gorgias, and taking hold of his cloke drew him along by main force; and while he was minded to take the accursed man alive, one of the Thracian horsemen bore down upon him and disabled his shoulder, and so Gorgias escaped to ** Marisa.
36 And when they that were with Esdris had been fighting long and were wearied out, Judas called upon the Lord to show himself, fighting on their side and leading the van of the battle;
37 and then in the language of his fathers he raised the battle-cry joined with hymns, and rushing unawares upon the troops of Gorgias put them to flight.
38 And Judas gathering his army came to the city of †† Adullam; and as the seventh day was coming on, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the sabbath there.
39 And on the day following, ‡‡ at which time it had become necessary, Judas and his company came to take up the bodies of them that had fallen, §§ and in company with their kinsmen to bring them back to the sepulchres of their fathers.
40 But under the garments of each one of the dead they found *** consecrated tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to have anything to do with; and it became clear to all that it was for this cause that they had fallen.
41 All therefore, blessing the works of the Lord, the righteous Judge, who makes manifest the things that are hid,
42 betook themselves to supplication, beseeching that the sin committed might be wholly blotted out. And the noble Judas exhorted the multitude to keep themselves from sin, forsomuch as they had seen before their eyes what things had come to pass because of the sin of them that had fallen.
43 And when he had made a collection man by man to the sum of two thousand drachmas of silver, he sent to Jerusalem to offer a sacrifice for sin, doing therein right well and honorably, in that he took thought for a resurrection.
44 For if he were not expecting that they that had fallen would rise again, it were superfluous and idle to pray for the dead.
45 (And if he did it looking to an honorable memorial of gratitude laid up for them that ††† die ‡‡‡ in godliness, holy and godly was the thought.) Wherefore he made the propitiation for them that had died, that they might be released from their sin.
§12:35: The Greek text is uncertain.
**12:35: Compare 1 Macc. v. 65.
††12:38: Gr. Odollam.
‡‡12:39: The Greek text here is uncertain.
§§12:39: Or, and to bring them back to be with their kinsmen in the sepulchres
***12:40: Perhaps these were consecrated images of the idols.
†††12:45: Gr. fall asleep.
‡‡‡12:45: Or, on the side of godliness
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