{"id":3676,"date":"2017-11-24T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2017-11-22T07:59:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:59:37","slug":"mass-readings-november-24th-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/mass-readings-november-24th-2017","title":{"rendered":"Mass Readings for November 24th, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #993300;\">First Reading &#8211; 1 MC 4<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Judas and his brothers said,<br \/>\n&#8220;Now that our enemies have been crushed,<br \/>\nlet us go up to purify the sanctuary and rededicate it.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo the whole army assembled, and went up to Mount Zion.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the morning on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month,<br \/>\nthat is, the month of Chislev,<br \/>\nin the year one hundred and forty-eight,<br \/>\nthey arose and offered sacrifice according to the law<br \/>\non the new altar of burnt offerings that they had made.<br \/>\nOn the anniversary of the day on which the Gentiles had defiled it,<br \/>\non that very day it was reconsecrated<br \/>\nwith songs, harps, flutes, and cymbals.<br \/>\nAll the people prostrated themselves and adored and praised Heaven,<br \/>\nwho had given them success.<\/p>\n<p>For eight days they celebrated the dedication of the altar<br \/>\nand joyfully offered burnt offerings and sacrifices<br \/>\nof deliverance and praise.<br \/>\nThey ornamented the facade of the temple with gold crowns and shields;<br \/>\nthey repaired the gates and the priests&#8217; chambers<br \/>\nand furnished them with doors.<br \/>\nThere was great joy among the people<br \/>\nnow that the disgrace of the Gentiles was removed.<br \/>\nThen Judas and his brothers and the entire congregation of Israel<br \/>\ndecreed that the days of the dedication of the altar<br \/>\nshould be observed with joy and gladness<br \/>\non the anniversary every year for eight days,<br \/>\nfrom the twenty-fifth day of the month Chislev.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Gospel &#8211; Luke 19<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out<br \/>\nthose who were selling things, saying to them,<br \/>\n&#8220;It is written,\u00a0<em>My house shall be a house of prayer,<br \/>\nbut you have made it a den of thieves.<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd every day he was teaching in the temple area.<br \/>\nThe chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile,<br \/>\nwere seeking to put him to death,<br \/>\nbut they could find no way to accomplish their purpose<br \/>\nbecause all the people were hanging on his words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Reading &#8211; 1 MC 4 Judas and his brothers said, &#8220;Now that our enemies have been crushed, let us go up to purify the sanctuary and rededicate it.&#8221; So the whole army assembled, and went up to Mount Zion. 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