Daily Readings - November 17, 2011 - Thursday
First Reading: 1 Maccabees 2: 15-29
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 50: 1-2, 5-6, 14-15
Holy Gospel: Luke 19: 41-44
Holy Gospel
41 When Jesus had come in sight of the city, he wept over it 42 and said, “If only today you knew the ways of peace! But now your eyes are held from seeing. 43 Yet days will come upon you when your enemies will surround you with barricades and shut you in and press on you from every side. 44 And they will dash you to the ground and your children with you, and leave not a stone within you, for you did not recognize the time and the visitation of your God.”
First Reading
15 In the meantime, the king’s representatives, who were forcing the Jews to give up their religion came to Modein to organize a sacred gathering.
16 While many Israelites went to them, Mattathias and his sons drew apart.
17 The representatives of the king addressed Mattathias, and said to him: “You are one of the leaders of this city, an important and wellknown man, and your many children and relatives follow you. 18 Come now and be the first to fulfill the king’s order, as the men of Judah have already done, and the survivors in Jerusalem as well. You and your sons will be named Friends of the King and the king will send you gold, silver and many other gifts.”
19 But Mattathias answered in a loud voice: “Even if all the nations included in the kingdom should abandon the religion of their ancestors and submit to the order of King Antiochus, 20 I, my sons and my family will remain faithful to the Covenant of our ancestors. 21 May God preserve us from abandoning the Law and its precepts. 22 We will not obey the orders of the king nor turn aside from our religion either to the right or to the left.”
23 When he finished speaking these words, a Jew came forward in the sight of everyone to offer incense on the altar that was built in Modein according to the king’s decree. 24 When Mattathias saw him, he was fired with zeal, his heart was stirred, and giving vent to his righteous anger, he threw himself on the Jew and cut the man’s throat on the altar. 25 At the same time, he killed the king’s representative who was forcing the people to offer sacrifice, and then tore down the altar. 26 In doing this he showed his zeal for the Law, as Phinehas had done with Zimri, son of Salu.
27 Mattathias then began to proclaim loudly in the city: “Everyone who is zealous for the Law and supports the Covenant, come out and follow me!” 28 Immediately he and his sons fled to the mountains and left behind all they had in the city.
29 Many Jews who looked for justice and wanted to be faithful to the Law went into the desert;
Responsorial Psalm
1 The God of gods, the Lord has spoken,
he summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2 God has shone from Zion, perfect in beauty.
5 “Gather before me my faithful ones,
who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
6 The heavens will proclaim his sentence,
for God himself is the judge.
14 Yet offer to God a sacrifice of thanks,
and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
15 Call on me in time of calamity;
I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.”
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 50: 1-2, 5-6, 14-15
Holy Gospel: Luke 19: 41-44
Holy Gospel
41 When Jesus had come in sight of the city, he wept over it 42 and said, “If only today you knew the ways of peace! But now your eyes are held from seeing. 43 Yet days will come upon you when your enemies will surround you with barricades and shut you in and press on you from every side. 44 And they will dash you to the ground and your children with you, and leave not a stone within you, for you did not recognize the time and the visitation of your God.”
First Reading
15 In the meantime, the king’s representatives, who were forcing the Jews to give up their religion came to Modein to organize a sacred gathering.
16 While many Israelites went to them, Mattathias and his sons drew apart.
17 The representatives of the king addressed Mattathias, and said to him: “You are one of the leaders of this city, an important and wellknown man, and your many children and relatives follow you. 18 Come now and be the first to fulfill the king’s order, as the men of Judah have already done, and the survivors in Jerusalem as well. You and your sons will be named Friends of the King and the king will send you gold, silver and many other gifts.”
19 But Mattathias answered in a loud voice: “Even if all the nations included in the kingdom should abandon the religion of their ancestors and submit to the order of King Antiochus, 20 I, my sons and my family will remain faithful to the Covenant of our ancestors. 21 May God preserve us from abandoning the Law and its precepts. 22 We will not obey the orders of the king nor turn aside from our religion either to the right or to the left.”
23 When he finished speaking these words, a Jew came forward in the sight of everyone to offer incense on the altar that was built in Modein according to the king’s decree. 24 When Mattathias saw him, he was fired with zeal, his heart was stirred, and giving vent to his righteous anger, he threw himself on the Jew and cut the man’s throat on the altar. 25 At the same time, he killed the king’s representative who was forcing the people to offer sacrifice, and then tore down the altar. 26 In doing this he showed his zeal for the Law, as Phinehas had done with Zimri, son of Salu.
27 Mattathias then began to proclaim loudly in the city: “Everyone who is zealous for the Law and supports the Covenant, come out and follow me!” 28 Immediately he and his sons fled to the mountains and left behind all they had in the city.
29 Many Jews who looked for justice and wanted to be faithful to the Law went into the desert;
Responsorial Psalm
1 The God of gods, the Lord has spoken,
he summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2 God has shone from Zion, perfect in beauty.
5 “Gather before me my faithful ones,
who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
6 The heavens will proclaim his sentence,
for God himself is the judge.
14 Yet offer to God a sacrifice of thanks,
and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
15 Call on me in time of calamity;
I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.”
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