Sunday: Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mal 3:19-20a/2 Thes 3:7-12/Lk 21:5-19
“For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you, and we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it; but with toil and labor we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any of you.”
2 Thessalonians 3:7-8, NRSVCE
Monday
1 Mc 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63/Lk 18:35-43
“Jesus stood still and ordered the man to be brought to him; and when he came near, he asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, let me see again.” Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has saved you.”Immediately he regained his sight and followed him, glorifying God; and all the people, when they saw it, praised God.”
Luke 18:40-43, NRSVCE
Tuesday
2 Mc 6:18-31/Lk 19:1-10
“When he was about to die under the blows, he groaned aloud and said: “It is clear to the Lord in his holy knowledge that, though I might have been saved from death, I am enduring terrible sufferings in my body under this beating, but in my soul I am glad to suffer these things because I fear him.””
2 Maccabees 6:30, NRSVCE
Wednesday
2 Mc 7:1, 20-31/Lk 19:11-28
“‘I tell you, to all those who have, more will be given; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.’”
Luke 19:26-27, NRSVCE
Thursday
1 Mc 2:15-29/Lk 19:41-44
“But Mattathias answered in a loud voice: “Although all the Gentiles in the king’s realm obey him, so that they forsake the religion of their ancestors and consent to the king’s orders, yet I and my sons and my kindred will keep to the covenant of our ancestors. Heaven forbid that we should forsake the law and the commandments. We will not obey the words of the king by departing from our religion in the slightest degree.””
1 Maccabees 2:19-22, NABRE
Friday
1 Mc 4:36-37, 52-59/Lk 19:45-48
“Then Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.’””
Luke 19:45-46, NABRE
Saturday
1 Mc 6:1-13/Lk 20:27-40
“But I now recall the evils I did in Jerusalem, when I carried away all the vessels of silver and gold that were in it, and for no cause gave orders that the inhabitants of Judah be destroyed. I know that this is why these evils have overtaken me; and now I am dying, in bitter grief, in a foreign land.”
1 Maccabees 6:12-13, NABRE
