miércoles, 17 de noviembre de 2027 · Tiempo Ordinario - Semana 33
Las lecturas llegan al lugar ordinario donde se practica la fe. Quédate con lo que Jesús dice o hace aquí, y deja que pida una respuesta honesta.
Lecturas de hoy
Primera lectura
2 Maccabees 7:1, 20-31
It came to pass that seven brothers and their mother were at the king's command taken and shamefully handled with scourges and cords, to compel them to taste of the abominable swine's flesh. But above all, the mother was marvelous and worthy of honorable memory; for when she watched seven sons perishing within the space of one day, she bore the sight with a good courage because of her hope in the Lord. She exhorted each one of them in the language of their fathers, filled with a noble spirit and stirring up her woman's thoughts with manly courage, saying to them, "I don't know how you came into my womb. It wasn't I who gave you your spirit and your life. It wasn't I who brought into order the first elements of each one of you. Therefore the Creator of the world, who shaped the first origin of man and devised the first origin of all things, in mercy gives back to you again both your spirit and your life, as you now treat yourselves with contempt for his laws' sake." But Antiochus, thinking himself to be despised, and suspecting the reproachful voice, while the youngest was yet alive didn't only make his appeal to him by words, but also at the same time promised with oaths that he would enrich him and raise him to high honor if he would turn from the ways of his ancestors, and that he would take him for his friend and entrust him with public affairs. But when the young man would in no way listen, the king called to him his mother, and urged her to advise the youth to save himself. When he had urged her with many words, she undertook to persuade her son. But bending toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, she spoke this in the language of her fathers: "My son, have pity upon me who carried you nine months in my womb, and nursed you three years, and nourished and brought you up to this age, and sustained you. I beg you, my child, to lift your eyes to the sky and the earth, and to see all things that are in it, and thus to recognize that God made them not of things that were, and that the race of men in this way comes into being. Don't be afraid of this butcher, but, proving yourself worthy of your brothers, accept your death, that in God's mercy I may receive you again with your brothers." But before she had finished speaking, the young man said, "What are you all waiting for? I don't obey the commandment of the king, but I listen to the commandment of the law that was given to our fathers through Moses. But you, who have devised all kinds of evil against the Hebrews, will in no way escape God's hands.
Salmo responsorial
Psalm 17:1bcd, 5-6, 8b and 15
Hear, LORD, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn't go out of deceitful lips. My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped. I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech. Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings, As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
Evangelio
Luke 19:11-28
Oyendo ellos estas cosas, prosiguió Jesús y dijo una parábola, por cuanto estaba cerca de Jerusalén, y ellos pensaban que el Reino de Dios se manifestaría inmediatamente. Dijo, pues: "Un hombre noble se fue a un país lejano, para recibir un reino y volver. Y llamando a diez siervos suyos, les dio diez minas, y les dijo: 'Negociad entre tanto que vengo'. Pero sus conciudadanos le aborrecían, y enviaron una embajada tras él, diciendo: 'No queremos que éste reine sobre nosotros.' "Aconteció que vuelto él, después de recibir el reino, mandó llamar ante él a aquellos siervos a los cuales había dado el dinero, para saber lo que había negociado cada uno. Vino el primero, diciendo: 'Señor, tu mina ha ganado diez minas'. "Él le dijo: 'Está bien, buen siervo; por cuanto en lo poco has sido fiel, tendrás autoridad sobre diez ciudades'. "Vino otro, diciendo: 'Señor, tu mina ha producido cinco minas'. "Y también a éste dijo: 'Tú también sé sobre cinco ciudades'. "Vino otro, diciendo: 'Señor, aquí está tu mina, la cual he tenido guardada en un pañuelo; porque tuve miedo de ti, por cuanto eres hombre severo, que tomas lo que no pusiste, y siegas lo que no sembraste'. "Entonces él le dijo: 'Mal siervo, por tu propia boca te juzgo. Sabías que yo era hombre severo, que tomo lo que no puse, y que siego lo que no sembré; ¿por qué, pues, no pusiste mi dinero en el banco, para que al volver yo, lo hubiera recibido con los intereses?' Y dijo a los que estaban presentes: 'Quitadle la mina, y dadla al que tiene las diez minas'. "Ellos le dijeron: 'Señor, tiene diez minas'. 'Pues yo os digo que a todo el que tiene, se le dará; mas al que no tiene, aun lo que tiene se le quitará. Y también a aquellos mis enemigos que no querían que yo reinase sobre ellos, traedlos acá, y decapitadlos delante de mí.'" Dicho esto, iba delante subiendo a Jerusalén.
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Texto bíblico: Santa Biblia Libre para el Mundo, dominio público, cuando cubre el pasaje; World English Bible Catholic Edition, dominio público, para pasajes católicos/deuterocanónicos o no cubiertos. Las citas de las lecturas están preparadas para Come Aside con metadatos de licencia MIT.
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