Official Translation
Reading 1 – Job 1.6-22
One day, when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord,
Satan also came among them.
The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, and said,
“From going back and forth on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”
The Lord said to Satan, “Have you noticed my servant, Job?
For there is no one like him on the earth,
a blameless and an upright man who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
Satan answered the Lord, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
Have you not made a hedge around him,
and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side?
You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has,
and he will renounce you to your face.”
The Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power.
Only on he, himself, do not stretch out your hand.”
So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters
were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,
that a messenger came to Job, and said,
“The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away.
Indeed, they have killed the young men with the edge of the sword,
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
“The fire of God has fallen from the sky,
and has burned up the sheep and the young men, and consumed them,
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
“The Chaldeans had three bands, and swept down on the camels,
and have taken them away, and killed the young men with the edge of the sword,
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
“Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine
in their eldest brother’s house, and behold, there came a great wind from the desert,
and it struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead.
I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there.
The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
Responsorial – Psalm 17.1bcd, 2-3, 6-7 Resp. 6
R. Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
Hear justice, O LORD,
attend unto my cry,
give ear unto my prayer, which does not come from lying lips.
R. Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
Let my judgment come from you.
Your eyes look on equity.
You have tested my heart. You have visited me in the night.
You have tried me, and found nothing.
R. Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
I have called on you, for you will answer me, O God.
Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
Show your marvelous loving kindness,
Savior of those who take refuge
at your right hand from their enemies.
R. Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
Gospel – Luke 9.46-50
An argument arose among the disciples about which of them was the greatest.
Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts,
took a little child, and set him by his side, and said to them,
“Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me.
Whoever receives me receives him who sent me.
For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”
John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name,
and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us.”
Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid him, for he who is not against you is for you.”
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Wednesday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time (I)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 2 Maccabees 7.1, 20-31
It came to pass that seven siblings along with their mother, were apprehended,
and were tormented with whips and scourges by the king
in order to compel them to eat swine's flesh against the law.
Now the mother who beheld seven sons slain in the space of one day
was to be admired above measure,
and worthy to be remembered by good humans.
She bore it with great courage because of the hope that she had in God.
She bravely exhorted every one of them in her own language,
being filled with wisdom and joining a man's heart to a woman's mind.
She said to them, “I do not know how you were formed in my womb:
for I neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life,
nor did I form the limbs of any one of you.
But the Creator of the world,
who designed the gestation of humans and causes the origin of all,
will restore to you again in his mercy, both breath and life,
since you now forsake yourselves for the sake of his laws.
Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised,
and, anyway, despising the mocking voice,
when the youngest was yet alive,
not only exhorted him by words but even assured him with an oath,
that he would make him a rich and happy man,
If he would turn from the laws of his fathers,
he would take him for a Friend and furnish him with an income.
When the young man was not moved with these things,
the king called the mother and advised her to
convince the young man to save his life.
When he had exhorted her with many words,
she promised that she would counsel her son.
So bending herself towards him, mocking the cruel tyrant,
she said her own language,
“My son, have pity on me, who bore you for nine months my womb,
and nursed you for years and nourished you and raised you to this age.
I beg you, my son, look upon heaven and earth and all that is in them.
Consider that God made them out of nothing and humans also.
So do not fear this tormentor,
but being a worthy equal with your siblings, receive death,
so that in mercy I may receive you again with your siblings.”
While she was yet speaking these words, the young man said,
“What are you waiting for? I will not obey the commandment of the king,
but the commandment of the law given to us by Moses.
But you have been the author of all violence against the Hebrews,
shall not escape the hand of God.”
Responsorial – Psalm 17.1bcd, 5-6, 8b+15 Resp. Psalm 17.15b
R. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
Hear justice, O LORD,
attend unto my cry,
give ear unto my prayer, which does not come from lying lips.
R. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
Sustain my travels in your paths,
so that my feet will not slip.
I have called upon you, for your will hear me, O God.
Incline your ear to me and hear my speech.
R. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me under the shadow of your wings.
As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness.
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
R. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
Gospel – Luke 19.11-28
And as they heard these things,
Jesus added and spoke a parable, because he was near Jerusalem
and because they thought that the kingdom of God would immediately appear.
So he said,
“A certain nobleman went into a far country
to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.
And he called ten of his servants, and entrusted to them ten minas,
and said to them, ‘Be busy until I come back.”
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him,
saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’
It came to pass, that when he had returned, having received the kingdom,
he commanded these servants to whom he had given the money,
to be called to him,
so that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.
Then came the first, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten mina.
And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant.
Because you have been faithful in a very little,
have authority over ten cities.’
And the second came, saying, ‘Master, your mina has gained five mina.’
And he likewise said to him, ‘You will be over five cities.’
Another came, saying, ‘Master, behold, here is your mina,
which I have kept laid up in a napkin.
because I feared you, for you are a severe man.
You take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’
And he said to him,
‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant.
You knew that I was a severe man,
taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow.
Why then did you not give my money to the bank,
so that at my coming I might have had mine plus interest?’
And he said to those who stood by,
‘Take from him the mina, and give it to him who has ten minas.’
And they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas.’
‘I say unto you that everyone who has shall be given to,
and even what they have shall be taken away from them who do not have.’
But as for those enemies of mine,
who did not wish that I should reign over them,
bring them here and slay them before me.’”
And when he had thus spoken,
he led the way, ascending up to Jerusalem.
Reading 1 – 2 Maccabees 7.1, 20-31
It came to pass that seven siblings along with their mother, were apprehended,
and were tormented with whips and scourges by the king
in order to compel them to eat swine's flesh against the law.
Now the mother who beheld seven sons slain in the space of one day
was to be admired above measure,
and worthy to be remembered by good humans.
She bore it with great courage because of the hope that she had in God.
She bravely exhorted every one of them in her own language,
being filled with wisdom and joining a man's heart to a woman's mind.
She said to them, “I do not know how you were formed in my womb:
for I neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life,
nor did I form the limbs of any one of you.
But the Creator of the world,
who designed the gestation of humans and causes the origin of all,
will restore to you again in his mercy, both breath and life,
since you now forsake yourselves for the sake of his laws.
Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised,
and, anyway, despising the mocking voice,
when the youngest was yet alive,
not only exhorted him by words but even assured him with an oath,
that he would make him a rich and happy man,
If he would turn from the laws of his fathers,
he would take him for a Friend and furnish him with an income.
When the young man was not moved with these things,
the king called the mother and advised her to
convince the young man to save his life.
When he had exhorted her with many words,
she promised that she would counsel her son.
So bending herself towards him, mocking the cruel tyrant,
she said her own language,
“My son, have pity on me, who bore you for nine months my womb,
and nursed you for years and nourished you and raised you to this age.
I beg you, my son, look upon heaven and earth and all that is in them.
Consider that God made them out of nothing and humans also.
So do not fear this tormentor,
but being a worthy equal with your siblings, receive death,
so that in mercy I may receive you again with your siblings.”
While she was yet speaking these words, the young man said,
“What are you waiting for? I will not obey the commandment of the king,
but the commandment of the law given to us by Moses.
But you have been the author of all violence against the Hebrews,
shall not escape the hand of God.”
Responsorial – Psalm 17.1bcd, 5-6, 8b+15 Resp. Psalm 17.15b
R. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
Hear justice, O LORD,
attend unto my cry,
give ear unto my prayer, which does not come from lying lips.
R. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
Sustain my travels in your paths,
so that my feet will not slip.
I have called upon you, for your will hear me, O God.
Incline your ear to me and hear my speech.
R. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me under the shadow of your wings.
As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness.
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
R. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
Gospel – Luke 19.11-28
And as they heard these things,
Jesus added and spoke a parable, because he was near Jerusalem
and because they thought that the kingdom of God would immediately appear.
So he said,
“A certain nobleman went into a far country
to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.
And he called ten of his servants, and entrusted to them ten minas,
and said to them, ‘Be busy until I come back.”
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him,
saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’
It came to pass, that when he had returned, having received the kingdom,
he commanded these servants to whom he had given the money,
to be called to him,
so that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.
Then came the first, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten mina.
And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant.
Because you have been faithful in a very little,
have authority over ten cities.’
And the second came, saying, ‘Master, your mina has gained five mina.’
And he likewise said to him, ‘You will be over five cities.’
Another came, saying, ‘Master, behold, here is your mina,
which I have kept laid up in a napkin.
because I feared you, for you are a severe man.
You take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’
And he said to him,
‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant.
You knew that I was a severe man,
taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow.
Why then did you not give my money to the bank,
so that at my coming I might have had mine plus interest?’
And he said to those who stood by,
‘Take from him the mina, and give it to him who has ten minas.’
And they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas.’
‘I say unto you that everyone who has shall be given to,
and even what they have shall be taken away from them who do not have.’
But as for those enemies of mine,
who did not wish that I should reign over them,
bring them here and slay them before me.’”
And when he had thus spoken,
he led the way, ascending up to Jerusalem.
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