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First Reading

1 Maccabees 2:15-29

15Then the king’s officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the city of Moʹde-in to make them offer sacrifice.

16Many from Israel came to them; and Mattathiʹas and his sons were assembled.

17Then the king’s officers spoke to Mattathiʹas as follows: “You are a leader, honored and great in this city, and supported by sons and brothers.

18Now be the first to come and do what the king commands, as all the Gentiles and the men of Judah and those that are left in Jerusalem have done. Then you and your sons will be numbered among the friends of the king, and you and your sons will be honored with silver and gold and many gifts.”

19But Mattathiʹas answered and said in a loud voice: “Even if all the nations that live under the rule of the king obey him, and have chosen to do his commandments, departing each one from the religion of his fathers,

20yet I and my sons and my brothers will live by the covenant of our fathers.

21Far be it from us to desert the law and the ordinances.

22We will not obey the king’s words by turning aside from our religion to the right hand or to the left.”

23When he had finished speaking these words, a Jew came forward in the sight of all to offer sacrifice upon the altar in Moʹde-in, according to the king’s command.

24When Mattathiʹas saw it, be burned with zeal and his heart was stirred. He gave vent to righteous anger; he ran and killed him upon the altar.

25At the same time he killed the king’s officer who was forcing them to sacrifice, and he tore down the altar.

26Thus he burned with zeal for the law, as Phinʹehas did against Zimri the son of Salu.

27Then Mattathiʹas cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying: “Let every one who is zealous for the law and supports the covenant come out with me!”

28And he and his sons fled to the hills and left all that they had in the city.

29Then many who were seeking righteousness and justice went down to the wilderness to dwell there,

Responsorial Psalm

Psalms 50:1-2, 5-6, 14-15

1The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

5“Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”

6The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah

14Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;

15and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”

Gospel

Luke 19:41-44

41And when he drew near and saw the city he wept over it,

42saying, “Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hid from your eyes.

43For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will cast up a bank about you and surround you, and hem you in on every side,

44and dash you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you; because you did not know the time of your visitation.”