November 21, 2016
We hope it will be a good day today !
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The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Memorial)
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Gospel: Luke 21:1-4
1 He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
2 He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.*
3 He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,
4 for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on."
*21:2: literally, "two lepta." 2 lepta was about 1% of a day's wages for an agricultural labourer.
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Revelation 14:1-3, 4b-5
1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred and forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
2 I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.
3 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.
4b for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from amongst men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
5 In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.*
*14:5: TR adds "before the throne of God"
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* The World English Bible
http://ebible.org/web/
◇ November 21, 2016 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/16_11_21.mp3
◇ Daily Readings November 21, 2016
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/112116.cfm
◇ Liturgical Calendar
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendarday.php?date=2016-11-21
◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/Luke.21
◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Luke&chapter=21&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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