USCCB Daily Readings Podcast
Daily Mass Reading Podcast For November 23, 2024
23rd, 2024, Saturday of the 33rd week in ordinary time. A reading from the book of Revelation, "I, John, heard a voice from heaven speak to me. Here are my two witnesses. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone wanting to harm them is sure to be slain. They have the power to close up the sky so that no rain can fall during the time of their prophesying. They also have power to turn water into blood and to afflict the earth with any plague as often as they wish. When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will wage war against them and conquer them and kill them. Their corpses will lie in the main street of the great city, which has the symbolic names Sodom and Egypt, where indeed their Lord was crucified. Those from every people, tribe, tongue, and nation will gaze on their corpses for three and a half days and they will not allow their corpses to be buried. The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and be glad and exchange gifts because these two prophets tormented the inhabitants of the earth. But after the three and a half days, a breath of life from God entered them. When they stood on their feet, great fear fell on those who saw them. Then they heard a loud voice from heaven say to them, "Come up here," so they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies looked on. The word of the Lord. The responseorial Psalm. The response is, "Blessed be the Lord, my rock." Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, my mercy and my fortress, my stronghold, my deliverer, my shield in whom I trust who seduce my people under me. Blessed be the Lord, my rock. Oh, God, I will sing a new song to you with a 10-string lyre I will chant your praise. You who give victory to kings and deliver David, your servant, from the evil sword. Blessed be the Lord, my rock. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, 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 but died childless. Then the second and the third married her. And likewise, all the seven died childless. Finally, the woman also died. Now, at the resurrection, whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had married her. Jesus said to them, "Children of this age, Mary and remarry, are those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead. Neither Mary nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like angels, and they are the children of God, because they are the ones who will rise. That 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. And he is not God of the dead, but of the living. And to him all are alive." Some of the scribes said in reply, "Teacher, you have answered well, and they no longer dared to ask him anything." The gospel of the Lord. [BLANK_AUDIO]