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Year 2 Weekday
Reading. (2/6/10)
Wednesday
of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1
Paul,
an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God
for the
promise of life in Christ Jesus,
to
Timothy, my dear child:
grace,
mercy, and peace from God the Father
and Christ
Jesus our Lord.
I am
grateful to God,
whom I
worship with a clear conscience as my ancestors did,
as I
remember you constantly in my prayers, night and day.
For
this reason, I remind you to stir into flame
the gift
of God that you have through the imposition of my hands.
For
God did not give us a spirit of cowardice
but
rather of power and love and self-control.
So
do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord,
nor of
me, a prisoner for his sake;
but bear
your share of hardship for the Gospel
with the
strength that comes from God.
He
saved us and called us to a holy life,
not
according to our works
but
according to his own design
and the
grace bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before time began,
but now
made manifest
through
the appearance of our savior Christ Jesus,
who
destroyed death and brought life and immortality
to light
through the Gospel,
for which
I was appointed preacher and Apostle and teacher.
On
this account I am suffering these things;
but I am
not ashamed,
for I
know him in whom I have believed
and am
confident that he is able to guard
what has been entrusted to me until that day.
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(1) To you, O Lord, I lift up my eyes.
To
you I lift up my eyes
who are
enthroned in heaven.
Behold,
as the eyes of servants
are on
the hands of their masters.
R.
To you, O Lord, I lift up my eyes.
As
the eyes of a maid
are on
the hands of her mistress,
So
are our eyes on the LORD, our God,
till he
have pity on us.
R. To
you, O Lord, I lift up my eyes.
Gospel
Some
Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection,
came to
Jesus and put this question to him, saying,
“Teacher,
Moses wrote for us,
If
someone’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child,
his
brother must take the wife
and
raise up descendants for his brother.
Now
there were seven brothers.
The
first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants.
So
the second brother married her and died, leaving no descendants,
and the
third likewise.
And
the seven left no descendants.
Last
of all the woman also died.
At
the resurrection when they arise whose wife will she
be?
For
all seven had been married to her.”
Jesus
said to them, “Are you not misled
because
you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?
When
they rise from the dead,
they
neither marry nor are given in marriage,
but they
are like the angels in heaven.
As
for the dead being raised,
have you
not read in the Book of Moses,
in the
passage about the bush, how God told him,
I
am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and
the God of Jacob?
He
is not God of the dead but of the living.
You are greatly misled.”
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