The 6th of November, 2022 is the Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar Year 2022.
Reading 1: 2 MC 7:1-2, 9-14
The first reading from the Book of Maccabees.
It came to pass that seven brothers and their mother were at the king’s command taken and shamefully handled with scourges and cords, to compel them to taste of the abominable swine’s flesh.
One of them made himself the spokesman and said, “What would you ask and learn from us? For we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.”
When he was at the last gasp, he said, “You, miscreant, release us out of this present life, but the King of the world will raise us who have died for his laws up to an everlasting renewal of life.”
After him, the third was made a victim of their mocking. When he was required, he quickly put out his tongue, and stretched out his hands courageously, and nobly said, “I got these from heaven. For his laws’ sake I treat these with contempt. From him, I hope to receive these back again.”
As a result, the king himself and those who were with him were astonished at the young man’s soul, for he regarded the pains as nothing.
When he too was dead, they shamefully handled and tortured the fourth in the same way.
Being near to death he said this: “It is good to die at the hands of men and look for the hope which is given by God, that we will be raised up again by him. For as for you, you will have no resurrection to life.”
Responsorial Psalm: PS 17:1, 5-6, 8 and 15
Response: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
R: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
R: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings.
As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
R: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
Reading 2: 2 THES 2:16-3:5
The second reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you, and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.
But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into the perseverance of Christ.
Gospel of the Day: LK 20:27-38 or LK 20:27, 34-38
From the gospel scripture according to Luke.
Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.
They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife and raise up children for his brother.
There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.
The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died.
Afterward the woman also died.
Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”
Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage.
But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”
