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2 Maccabees  6: 18-31

 Eleazar, one of the prominent teachers of the Law,

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 Wisdom of Solomon 7: 22b-8:1

 Because Wisdom, who designed them all, taught me.

When God the Son came to His own people, the Jews, they refused to receive Him.

It was not that they were ignorant of His visitation, but they deliberately refused to recognize Him as their God.

Jesus was expressing His sorrow for Jerusalem because it had rejected Him.

Instead of being a city of peace, Jerusalem has therefore become a city of weeping.

Dedication of the Basilicas of Peter and Paul   

St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, virgin

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 1 Maccabees 1: 10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63*

 From their descendants there came a godless offshoot,

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin  

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Wisdom of Solomon 6: 1-11

Listen, O kings, and understand; rulers of the most distant lands, take warning.

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Malachi 3: 19-20a

The day already comes, flaming as a furnace.

 St. Josaphat, bishop & martyr  

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Wisdom of Solomon 2: 23-3: 9

Indeed God created man to be immortal in the likeness of his own nature,

Blessed Virgin Mary  /  St. Margaret of Scotland, queen 

St. Gertrude the Great, virgin 

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Wisdom of Solomon 18: 14-16; 19: 6-9

While all was in quiet silence and the night was in the middle of its course,

St. Martin of Tours, bishop 

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Wisdom of Solomon 1: 1-7

Love justice, you who rule over the world!

St. Albert the Great, bishop  & doctor 

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 Wisdom of Solomon  13: 1-9

The natural helplessness of humans is seen in their ignorance of God.

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2Maccabees 7: 1-2, 9-14

It happened also that seven brother were arrested with their mother.