November 22, 2025
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Memorial of Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr
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Gospel : Luke 20:27-40
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Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.
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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.
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There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.
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The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
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The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died.
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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."
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Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry and are given in marriage.
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But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
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For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
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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.'
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Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."
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Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well."
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They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.
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1 Maccabees 6:1-13 **
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As King Antiochus passed through the eastern provinces, he heard that in Persia there was a city, Elam,* famous for its wealth in silver and gold,
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and that its temple was very rich, containing gold helmets, breastplates, and weapons left there by the first king of the Greeks, Alexander, son of Philip, king of Macedon.
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He went therefore and tried to capture and loot the city. But he could not do so, because his plan became known to the people of the city
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who rose up in battle against him. So he fled and in great dismay withdrew from there to return to Babylon.
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While he was in Persia, a messenger brought him news that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been routed;
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that Lysias had gone at first with a strong army and been driven back; that the people of Judah had grown strong by reason of the arms, wealth, and abundant spoils taken from the armies they had cut down;
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that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded with high walls both the sanctuary, as it had been before, and his city of Beth-zur.
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When the king heard this news, he was astonished and very much shaken. Sick with grief because his designs had failed, he took to his bed.
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There he remained many days, assailed by waves of grief, for he thought he was going to die.
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So he called in all his Friends and said to them: "Sleep has departed from my eyes, and my heart sinks from anxiety.
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I said to myself: 'Into what tribulation have I come, and in what floods of sorrow am I now! Yet I was kindly and beloved in my rule.'
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But I now recall the evils I did in Jerusalem, when I carried away all the vessels of silver and gold that were in it, and for no cause gave orders that the inhabitants of Judah be destroyed.
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I know that this is why these evils have overtaken me; and now I am dying, in bitter grief, in a foreign land."
** 1 Maccabees 6:1-13
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1maccabees/6?1
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* World English Bible
https://ebible.org/engwebp/
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