Readings for
November 20, 2027
Ordinary Weekday/ Optional Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Optional Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
First Reading
First Maccabees 6: 1-13
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Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 9: 2-3, 4 and 6, 16 and 19
2I - I will praise you, LORD, with all my heart; I will declare all your wondrous deeds.
3I will delight and rejoice in you; I will sing hymns to your name, Most High.
4When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before you.
6You rebuked the nations, you destroyed the wicked; their name you blotted out for all time.
16VI - The nations fall into the pit they dig; in the snare they hide, their own foot is caught.
19For the needy will never be forgotten, nor will the hope of the afflicted ever fade.
Alleluia
Second Timothy 1: 10
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Gospel
Luke 20: 27-40
27Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to him,
28saying, “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.’
29Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless.
30Then the second
31and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless.
32Finally the woman also died.
33Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her.”
34Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage;
35but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
36They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.
37That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called ‘Lord’ the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
38and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
39Some of the scribes said in reply, “Teacher, you have answered well.”
40And they no longer dared to ask him anything. The Question About David’s Son.