Daily Reading for Sunday, November 6th, 2016

Daily Reading for Sunday November 6, 2016

Reading 1, Second Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15
Gospel, Luke 20:27-38
Reading 2, Second Thessalonians 2:16--3:5
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Gospel, Luke 20:27-38

²⁷ Some Sadducees -- those who argue that there is no resurrection -- approached him and they put this question to him,

²⁸ 'Master, Moses prescribed for us, if a man's married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother.

²⁹ Well then, there were seven brothers; the first, having married a wife, died childless.

³⁰ The second

³¹ and then the third married the widow. And the same with all seven, they died leaving no children.

³² Finally the woman herself died.

³³ Now, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be, since she had been married to all seven?'

³⁴ Jesus replied, 'The children of this world take wives and husbands,

³⁵ but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry

³⁶ because they can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being children of the resurrection they are children of God.

³⁷ And Moses himself implies that the dead rise again, in the passage about the bush where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

³⁸ Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him everyone is alive.'

Reading 2, Second Thessalonians 2:16--3:5

¹⁶ May our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who has given us his love and, through his grace, such ceaseless encouragement and such sure hope,

¹⁷ encourage you and strengthen you in every good word and deed.

¹ Finally, brothers, pray for us that the Lord's message may spread quickly, and be received with honour as it was among you;

² and pray that we may be preserved from bigoted and evil people, for not everyone has faith.

³ You can rely on the Lord, who will give you strength and guard you from the evil One,

⁴ and we, in the Lord, have every confidence in you, that you are doing and will go on doing all that we tell you.

⁵ May the Lord turn your hearts towards the love of God and the perseverance of Christ.

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