The 32nd Sunday of the Year
2 Macc 7:1-2 & 9-14; 2 Thess 2:16 – 3:5; Lk 20:27-38 (Year C)
November is a time for remembrance. We remember those who have gone before us and in so doing are reminded that we will most certainly follow them.
Week by week we confess our faith in the resurrection from the dead. Today’s first reading, from the Second Book of Maccabees, relates the nature of that resurrection. The passage is set against the brutal Seleucid persecution of the Jewish faith in 167 BC. It records the defiant faith of the three Maccabean brothers as they faced martyrdom: “It was heaven that gave me these limbs; for the sake of God’s laws I disdain them; from him I hope to receive them again”.
