November 6, 2016
We hope that today is a good day.
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Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Gospel: Luke 20:27-38
27 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.
28 They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.
29 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.
30 The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
31 The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died.
32 Afterward the woman also died.
33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife."
34 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.
35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
36 For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'☆
38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."
☆20:37: Exodus 3:6
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2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14
1 The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions,
2 and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture,
9 You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy.
10 O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigourous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar!
11 For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel,
12 so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, did not give up his reasoning.
13 And, what is most wonderful, though an old man, though the labours of his body were now spent, and his fibres were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth.
14 By the spirit of reasoning, and the reasoning of Isaac, he rendered powerless the many-headed instrument.
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2 Thessalonians 2:16--3:5
2:16 Now 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 you in every good work and word.
3:1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you;
2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.
3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.
4 We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.
5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love, and into the perseverance of Christ.
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* The World English Bible
http://ebible.org/web/
◇ November 6, 2016 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/16_11_06.mp3
◇ Daily Readings November 6, 2016
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/110616.cfm
◇ Liturgical Calendar
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendarday.php?date=2016-11-06
◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/Luke.20
◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Luke&chapter=20&verse=
◇ The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm
◇ Douay-Rheims Bible
http://www.drbo.org/
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