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Weekday of Monday November 20, 2023

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November 20, 2023

(Jeremiah 29:11, 12, 14)
The Lord said: I think thoughts of peace and not of affliction. You will call upon me, and I will answer you, and I will lead back your captives from every place.

Texts of the day

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First reading

Reading (1 Maccabees 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63)

[From the descendants of Alexander’s officers] there sprang a sinful offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus, once a hostage at Rome. He became king in the year one hundred and thirty-seven of the kingdom of the Greeks. In those...

Responsorial Psalm (Psalm 119:53, 61, 134, 150, 155, 158)

Indignation seizes me because of the wicked who forsake your law. R. Though the snares of the wicked are twined about me, your law I have not forgotten. R. Redeem me from the oppression of men,...

Gospel (Luke 18:35-43)

As Jesus approached Jericho a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging, and hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what was happening. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” He shouted, “Jesus, Son of David, have...