Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, November 24 2018

Saturday of the Thirty-third week in Ordinary Time

Saturday of the Thirty-third week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Revelation

11,4-12.

]I, John, heard a voice from heaven speak to me:
Here are my two witnesses: These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
]If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone wanting to harm them is sure to be slain.
]They have the power to close up the sky so that no rain can fall during the time of their prophesying. They also have power to turn water into blood and to afflict the earth with any plague as often as they wish.
]When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will wage war against them and conquer them and kill them.
]Their corpses will lie in the main street of the great city, which has the symbolic names "Sodom" and "Egypt," where indeed their Lord was crucified.
]Those from every people, tribe, tongue, and nation will gaze on their corpses for three and a half days, and they will not allow their corpses to be buried.
]The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and be glad and exchange gifts because these two prophets tormented the inhabitants of the earth.
]But after the three and a half days, a breath of life from God entered them. When they stood on their feet, great fear fell on those who saw them.
]Then they heard a loud voice from heaven say to them, "Come up here." So they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies looked on.

Psalm

Psalms

144(143),1.2.9-10.

]Blessed be the LORD, my rock,
who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war.
]My mercy and my fortress,
my stronghold, my deliverer,
my shield, in whom I trust,
who subdues my people under me.
]O God, I will sing a new song to you;
with a ten stringed lyre I will chant your praise,
]You who give victory to kings,
and deliver David, your servant from the evil sword.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

20,27-40.

]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 '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."
]Some of the scribes said in reply, "Teacher, you have answered well."
]And they no longer dared to ask him anything.

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St. Andrew Dung-Lac and His Companions(Martyrs (1745-1862) - Memorial)

SAINTS ANDREW DUNG-LAC Priest, AND HIS COMPANIONS (18th and 19th centuries) This feast day celebrates the martyrs who laid down their lives in Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam, from 1745 to 1862. Many of them were Dominican priests. Some belonged to the Paris Society for Foreign Missions. Others, including Andrew Dung-Lac, were Vietnamese. Paul Le-Bao-Tinh, a Vietnamese seminarian, wrote a letter shortly before his martyrdom in 1843: "I, Paul, chained for the name of Christ, wish to tell you the tribulations in which I am immersed every day, so that you, inflamed with love for God, may also lift up your praise to God, 'for his mercy endures forever.' This prison is truly the image of the eternal Hell: to the cruelest tortures of all types, such as fetters, iron chains and bonds, are added hate, vindictiveness, calumny, indecent words, interrogations, bad acts, unjust oaths, curses and finally difficulties and sorrow. But God, who once freed the three boys from the path of the flames, is always with me and has freed me from these tribulations and converted them into sweetness, 'for his mercy endures forever...' "Assist me with your prayers so that I may struggle according to the law, and indeed 'fight the good fight' and that I may be worthy to fight until the end, finishing my course happily; if we do not see each other again in this life, in the future age, nonetheless, this will be our joy, when standing before the throne of the spotless Lamb, with one voice we sing his praises, exulting in the joy of eternal victory. Amen."

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