November 23, 2017
I hope you have a nice day today too.
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Thursday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
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Gospel: Luke 19:41-44
41 When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
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1 Maccabees 2:15-29
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 honourable 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 honoured 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.
29 Then many that sought after justice and judgement went down into the wilderness, to dwell there,
*2:18: See ch. iii. 38: vi. 10, &c. Compare ch. x. 65; xi. 27; 2 Macc. viii. 9.
‡2:21: Gr. May he be propitious. Compare 2 Sam. xxiii. 17 (Sept.).
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* The World English Bible
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◇ November 23, 2017 Daily Mass Reading
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◇ Daily Readings November 23, 2017
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◇ Liturgical Calendar
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◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/Luke.19
◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Luke&chapter=19&verse=
◇ The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
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◇ Douay-Rheims Bible
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