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Ordinary Time · Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time · Year C

2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14

The Seven Brothers' Witness to the Resurrection

November 12, 2028

The Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabees (Das Martyrium der sieben Makkabäer), Antonio Ciseri
The Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabees (Das Martyrium der sieben Makkabäer), Antonio Ciseri, 1863Santa Felicita, Florence
A Swiss-Italian painting of the mother watching her sons die one by one, with the king enthroned above and the bodies accumulating below.You accursed wretch, you dismiss us from this present life, but the King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life.Antonio CiseriA Swiss-Italian painter working in Florence, whose religious subjects are composed with an unusual sense of where to put the viewer.Santa Felicita, FlorenceA church across the Arno with a chapel by Brunelleschi and Pontormo's Deposition, on the route of the Vasari Corridor.Santa Felicita, Florence
Roman Lectionary
GospelLuke 20:27-38Lk 20:27-38 orLuke 20:27, 34-38Lk 20:27, 34-38
Second Reading2 Thess. 2:16–3:52 Thes 2:16–3:5
First Reading2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-142 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14
Responsorial PsalmPs. 17:1, 5-6, 8+15 (15b)Ps 17:1, 5-6, 8+15 (15b)

Overview & Insights

"The King of the universe will raise us up to live again forever." (2 Maccabees 7:9)

Seven brothers and their mother choose torture and death rather than break the law, each one professing that God will raise them to life again. It is the Old Testament's clearest statement of bodily resurrection and pairs directly with this Sunday's Gospel.

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Commentary

2 Maccabees 7 - Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary2 Mc 7 - Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary StudyLight

Haydock is the one full Catholic commentary set on the apocrypha available online.

2 Maccabees 72 Mc 7 BibleHub

Gives the full apocryphal text of the chapter for reference.

2 Machabees 7 (Haydock) Haydock Commentary

A classic Douay-Rheims Catholic commentary, which covers the Maccabees books most Protestant commentaries omit.

Background & Word Study

2 Machabees, Chapter 7 (Douay-Rheims) New Advent · Catholic Encyclopedia

The Catholic Douay-Rheims text with verse-by-verse Challoner notes.

The Books of Machabees - Catholic Encyclopedia New Advent · Catholic Encyclopedia

Explains the book's origin, canonicity, and historical setting.

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