Saturday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time – Year II

Send us Fan MailSaturday, 23 November 2024Saturday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time – Year IIThe Mass of our Lady (Common BVM#2)Antiphons on p. 1863 and Readings on p. 1482 of the Daily Missal.First Reading: Revelation 11:4-12Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 144:1.2.9-10 (R. 1a)R/. Blest be the Lord, my rock.Blest be the Lord, my rock,who trains my hands for battle,who prepares my fingers for war.He is my merciful love, my fortress;he is my stronghold, my saviour,my shield in whom I take refuge.He brings peoples under my rule.To you, O God, will I sing a new song;I will play on the ten-stringed harpto you who give kings their victory,who set David your servant freefrom the evil sword.R/. Blest be the Lord, my rock.Alleluia, Alleluia.Our Saviour Christ Jesus abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.Alleluia. Gospel: Luke 20:27-40A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.At that time: There came to Jesus some Sadducees, those who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first took a wife and died without children, and the second and the third took her, and likewise, all seven left no children and died. Afterward the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.” And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him.” And some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” For they no longer dared to ask him any question.The Gospel of the Lord.