1 Maccabees 6:1-13; Luke 20

Saturday Mass of Our Lady (Ordinary Time, Year 1)
Readings on p.1480 and Antiphons on p 1863 of the Daily Missal (Commons BVM#2)

Entrance Antiphon.

Blessed are you, O Virgin Mary, who bore the Creator of all things. You became the Mother of your Maker, and you remain forever virgin.

 

First Reading: 1 Maccabees 6: 1-13

A reading from the Book of Maccabees.

In those days:
King Antiochus was going through the upper provinces
when he heard that Elymais in Persia
was a city famed for its wealth in silver and gold.
Its temple was very rich,
containing golden shields, breastplates, and weapons
left there by Alexander, the son of Philip,
the Macedonian king who first reigned over the Greeks.
So he came and tried to take the city and plunder it,
but he could not,
because his plan became known to the people of the city
and they withstood him in battle.
So he fled
and in great grief departed from there to return to Babylon.
Then someone came to him in Persia
and reported that the armies
which had gone into the land of Judah
had been routed;
that Lysias had gone first with a strong force,
but had turned and fled before the Jews;
that the Jews had grown strong
from the arms, supplies, and abundant spoils
which they had taken from the armies they had cut down;
that they had torn down the abomination
which he had erected upon the altar in Jerusalem;
and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls
as before, and also Bethzur, his city.

When the king heard this news,
he was astounded and badly shaken.
He took to his bed and became sick from grief
because things had not turned out for him as he had planned.
He lay there for many days
because deep grief continually gripped him,
and he concluded that he was dying.
So he called all his friends and said to them,
“Sleep departs from my eyes
and I am downhearted with worry.
I said to myself,
‘To what distress I have come!
And into what a great flood I now am plunged!
For I was kind and beloved in my power.’
But now I remember the evils I did in Jerusalem.
I seized all her vessels of silver and gold,
and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judah
without good reason.
I know that it is because of this
that these evils have come upon me,
and behold,
I am perishing of deep grief in a strange land.”

The Word of the Lord.

 

 

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 9:2-3.4 & 6.16 & 19 (R. see 15c)

Let us now pray the Responsorial Psalm:

R/. I will rejoice in your salvation, O Lord.

I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart;
all your wonders I will confess.
I will rejoice in you and be glad,
and sing psalms to your name, O Most High.

See how my enemies turn back,
how they stumble and perish before you.
You have rebuked the nations, destroyed the wicked;
you have wiped out their name forever and ever.

The nations have fallen in the pit which they made;
their feet have been caught in the snare they laid.
for the needy shall not always be forgotten,
nor the hopes of the poor ever perish.

R/. I will rejoice in your salvation, O Lord.

Please stand for the Gospel.

Alleluia, Alleluia.
Our Saviour Christ Jesus abolished death
and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.
Alleluia.

 

 

Gospel: Luke 20:27-40

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.

At that time:
There came to him 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.

Communion Antiphon.
He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.