Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 156
6 NOV 2022 A.D.


Reading 1
2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14

It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested
and tortured with whips and scourges by the king,
to force them to eat pork in violation of God's law.
One of the brothers, speaking for the others, said:
"What do you expect to achieve by questioning us?
We are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors."

At the point of death he said:
"You accursed fiend, you are depriving us of this present life,
but the King of the world will raise us up to live again forever.
It is for his laws that we are dying."

After him the third suffered their cruel sport.
He put out his tongue at once when told to do so,
and bravely held out his hands, as he spoke these noble words:
"It was from Heaven that I received these;
for the sake of his laws I disdain them;
from him I hope to receive them again."
Even the king and his attendants marveled at the young man's courage,
because he regarded his sufferings as nothing.

After he had died,
they tortured and maltreated the fourth brother in the same way.
When he was near death, he said,
"It is my choice to die at the hands of men
with the hope God gives of being raised up by him;
but for you, there will be no resurrection to life."


Responsorial Psalm
Ps 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15

R. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

Hear, O LORD, a just suit;
attend to my outcry;
hearken to my prayer from lips without deceit.
R. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

My steps have been steadfast in your paths,
my feet have not faltered.
I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
incline your ear to me; hear my word.
R. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

Keep me as the apple of your eye,
hide me in the shadow of your wings.
But I in justice shall behold your face;
on waking I shall be content in your presence.
R. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.


Reading 2
2 Thes 2:16-3:5

Brothers and sisters:
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father,
who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement
and good hope through his grace,
encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed
and word.

Finally, brothers and sisters, pray for us,
so that the word of the Lord may speed forward and be glorified,
as it did among you,
and that we may be delivered from perverse and wicked people,
for not all have faith.
But the Lord is faithful;
he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
We are confident of you in the Lord that what we instruct you,
you are doing and will continue to do.
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God
and to the endurance of Christ.

Alleluia
Rv 1:5a, 6b

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Jesus Christ is the firstborn of the dead;
to him be glory and power, forever and ever.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.


Gospel
Lk 20:27-38

Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,
came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying,
"Teacher, Moses wrote for us,
If someone's brother dies leaving a wife but no child,
his brother must take the wife
and raise up descendants for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers;
the first married a woman but died childless.
Then the second and the third married her,
and likewise all the seven died childless.
Finally the woman also died.
Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be?
For all seven had been married to her."
Jesus said to them,
"The children of this age marry and remarry;
but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age
and to the resurrection of the dead
neither marry nor are given in marriage.
They can no longer die,
for they are like angels;
and they are the children of God
because they are the ones who will rise.
That the dead will rise
even Moses made known in the passage about the bush,
when he called out 'Lord, '
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
and he is not God of the dead, but of the living,
for to him all are alive."


Overview of the Gospel:

• For the last several weeks we have followed Jesus on his journey to Jerusalem. This Sunday’s
Gospel reading finds him now in Jerusalem after his triumphal entry (Luke 19:35-40) and his
cleansing of the temple (19:45-48). The Jewish authorities, including the Sadducees, begin to
look for a way to get rid of him.

• The Sadducees were a religious/political party that accepted only the first five books of the
Bible (the Pentateuch) as inspired scripture. Thus they rejected all oral tradition and teachings
which they could not find in the Pentateuch, including a belief in the resurrection of the dead
(verse 27).

• Their question as posed to Jesus is meant to ridicule the idea of a resurrection. Jesus uses the
opportunity (from their own preferred version of the Scriptures) not only to answer their direct
question, but to correct their mistaken concept of both marriage and the nature of the world to
come. [courtesy of Vince Contreras: "Sunday Scripture Study for Catholics."]


"For a person to go straight along the road, he must have some knowledge of the end--just as an archer will not shoot an arrow straight unless he first sees the target ... This is particularly necessary if the road is hard and rough, the going heavy, and the end delightful." ~ St. Thomas Aquinas

Thanks!

yep! Thanks be to God!

our pleasure, Brother, tortilla-flats!

Thank you BNA!

Have a Blessed Sunday!


ETA:

I will usually come to your post when my kids take all the missals. Hahaha.

Unless I am at the TLM. Again thank you.

Splendid, skid2041!

You and yours have a blessed week as well.

So--the children are "pinching" the missals?

Now THAT is a great thing! Keep it up, as well as the TLM!

You're very welcome.

PS
All the artwork (well mostly) in our posts are offered by our partner here, "Doc Art," a very devout Catholic College Professor in Texas!