First Reading
Choose the FIRST READING from the Old and New Testament selections listed below. Once you have selected a first reading, download or print out a copy for the person who will be reading the scripture at Mass.
2 Maccabees 12:43-46 (C1)
He acted in an excellent and noble way as he had the resurrection of the dead in view.
[Obró con gran rectitud y nobleza, pensando en la resurrección.]
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Job 19:1, 23-27a (C2)
I know that my vindicator lives.
[Yo sé bien que mi defensor está vivo.]
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Wisdom 3:1-9 [long] (C3)
As sacrificial offerings he took them to himself.
[Los aceptó como un holocausto agradable.]
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Wisdom 3:1-6, 9 [short] (C3s)
As sacrificial offerings he took them to himself.
[Los aceptó como un holocausto agradable.]
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Wisdom 4:7-15 (C4)
An unsullied life, the attainment of old age.
[La edad avanzada se mide por una vida intachable.]
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Isaiah 25:6a, 7-9 (C5)
He will destroy death forever.
[El Señor destruirá la muerte para siempre.]
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Lamentations 3:17-26 (C6)
It is good to hope in silence for the saving help of the Lord.
[Es bueno esperar en silencio la salvación del Señor.]
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Daniel 12:1-3 (C7)
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake.
[Muchos de los que duermen en el polvo, despertarán.]
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Acts 10:34-43 [long] (C8)
He is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.
[Dios ha constituido a Jesús como juez de vivos y muertos.]
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Acts 10:34-36, 42-43 [short] (C8s)
He is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.
[Dios ha constituido a Jesús como juez de vivos y muertos.]
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Revelation 14:13 (C9)
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.
[Dichosos los que mueren en el Señor.]
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Revelation 20:11—21:1 (C10)
The dead were judged according to their deeds.
[Los muertos fueron juzgados conforme a sus obras.]
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Revelation 21:1-5a, 6b-7 (C11)
There shall be no more death.
[Ya no habrá muerte.]
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Ecclesiastes 3:1-14 (C54)
No One Can Determine the Right Time to Act
[Nadie puede determinar el momento adecuado para actuar]
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Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 (C60)
No One Can Determine the Right Time to Act
[Nadie puede determinar el momento adecuado para actuar]
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Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (C61)
No One Can Determine the Right Time to Act
[Nadie puede determinar el momento adecuado para actuar]
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Hope in the face of death
Because of our belief not only in the immortality of the soul, but also in the resurrection of the body, the Church professes hope in the face of death, and acts with charity in the funeral rites. The Church provides a number of prayers for the faithful to offer both to accompany the dying of a loved one and to strengthen our faith upon their death.
Through private prayer and public funeral rites, we strengthen our faith and hope, comfort those who mourn, and bury the bodily remains of the deceased with care befitting what was the Temple of the Holy Spirit.
Source: usccb.org
I am going to prepare a place for you.... I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be.” John 14:2-3