November 18, 2003Tuesday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Tuesday 49 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading I2 Macc 6:18-31 Eleazar, one of the foremost scribes,a man of advanced age and noble appearance,was being forced to open his mouth to eat pork. But preferring a glorious death to a life of defilement,he spat out the meat,and went forward of his own accord to the instrument of torture,as people ought to do who have the courage to reject the foodwhich it is unlawful to taste even for love of life. Those in charge of that unlawful ritual meal took...