Sunday 10 November 2013 Saints and Bible Readings..... 32nd Sunday of the year About Today Psalm week: 4. In other years: Pope St Leo the Great (- 461) He was born in Etruria and became Pope in 440. He was a true shepherd and father of souls. He constantly strove to keep the faith whole and strenuously defended the unity of the Church. He repelled the invasions of the barbarians or alleviated their effects, famously persuading Attila the Hun not to march on Rome in 452 and preventing the invading Vandals from massacring the population in 455. He left many doctrinal and spiritual writings behind and a number of them are included in the Office of Readings to this day. He died in 461. Catholic Calendar 2 Maccabees Chapter 7 1 It also 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 Gods law. 2 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. 9 1 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. 10 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, 11 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. 12 Even the king and his attendants marveled at the young mans courage, because he regarded his sufferings as nothing. 13 After he had died, they tortured and maltreated the fourth brother in the same way. 14 When he was near death, he said, It is my choice to die at the hands of men with the God-given hope of being restored to life by him; but for you, there will be no resurrection to life. Table of Contents 2 Maccabees 7 Footnotes 1 [9] The King of the world will raise us up: here, and in 2 Macc 7:11, 14, 23, 29, 36, belief in the future resurrection of the body, at least for the just, is clearly stated; cf also 2 Macc 12:44; 14:46; Daniel 12:2. Psalms Chapter 17 1 A prayer of David. 1 Hear, LORD, my plea for justice; pay heed to my cry; Listen to my prayer spoken without guile. 5 My steps have kept to your paths; my feet have not faltered. 6 I call upon you; answer me, O God. Turn your ear to me; hear my prayer. 8 2 Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings 15 3 I am just--let me see your face; when I awake, let me be filled with your presence. Table of Contents Psalms 17 Footnotes 1 [Psalm 17] A lament of an individual unjustly attacked who has taken refuge in the temple. Confident of being found innocent, the psalmist cries out for Gods just judgment (Psalm 17:1-5) and requests divine help against enemies (Psalm 17:6-9a). Those ravenous lions (Psalm 17:9b-12) should be punished (Psalm 17:13-14). The psalm ends with a serene statement of praise (Psalm 17:15). The Hebrew text of Psalm 17:3-4, 14 is uncertain. 2 [8] Apple of your eye . . . shadow of your wings: images of Gods special care. Cf Deut 32:10; Proverb 7:2; Isaiah 49:2. 3 [15] When I awake: probably the psalmist has spent the night in the sanctuary (cf Psalm 17:3) and hopes to wake to an oracle assuring Gods protective presence. 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2 16 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, 17 encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed and word. Chapter 3 1 1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, so that the word of the Lord may speed forward and be glorified, as it did among you, 2 and that we may be delivered from perverse and wicked people, for not all have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. 4 We are confident of you in the Lord that what we instruct you, you (both) are doing and will continue to do. 5 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of Christ. Table of Contents 2 Thessalonians 2 2 Thessalonians 3 Footnotes 1 [1-18] The final chapter urges the Thessalonians to pray for Paul and his colleagues (2 Thes 3:1-2) and reiterates confidence in the Thessalonians (2 Thes 3:3-5), while admonishing them about a specific problem in their community that has grown out of the intense eschatological speculation, namely, not to work but to become instead disorderly busybodies (2 Thes 3:6-15). A benediction (2 Thes 3:16) and postscript in Pauls own hand round out the letter. On 2 Thes 3:17-18, cf the note on 2 Thes 2:2. Luke Chapter 20 27 Some Sadducees, 1 those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to him, 28 2 saying, Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If someones brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless. 30 Then the second 31 and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless. 32 Finally the woman also died. 33 Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her. 34 Jesus said to them, The children of this age marry and remarry; 35 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. 36 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. 3 37 That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; 38 and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive. Table of Contents Luke 20 Footnotes 1 [27] Sadducees: see the note on Matthew 3:7. 2 [28-33] The Sadducees question, based on the law of levirate marriage recorded in Deut 25:5-10, ridicules the idea of the resurrection. Jesus rejects their naive understanding of the resurrection (Luke 20:35-36) and then argues on behalf of the resurrection of the dead on the basis of the written law (Luke 20:37-38) that the Sadducees accept. See also the notes on Matthew 22:23-33. 3 [36] Because they are the ones who will rise: literally, being sons of the resurrection.
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