Nov 25, 2019
Readings:
Isaiah 2:1–5
Psalm 122:1–9
Romans 13:11–14
Matthew 24:37–44
Jesus exaggerates in today’s Gospel when He claims not to know the
day or the hour when He will come again.
He occasionally makes such overstatements to drive home a point we might otherwise miss (see Matthew 5:34; 23:9; Luke 14:26).
His point...
Nov 25, 2019
Lecturas:
Isaías 2,1–5
Salmo 122,1–9
Romanos 13,11–14
Mateo 24,37–44
En el Evangelio de hoy, Jesús exagera cuando dice que no conoce el
día o la hora en que vendrá de nuevo.
En ciertas ocasiones, Él hace esas exageraciones para tocar un punto que de otra manera podríamos pasar por alto (cf. Mt 5,32; 23,9; Lc...
Nov 18, 2019
Readings:
2 Samuel 5:1–3
Psalm 122:1–5
Colossians 1:12–20
Luke 23:35–43
Week by week the Liturgy has been preparing us for the revelation
to be made on this, the last Sunday of the Church year.
Jesus, we have been shown, is truly the Chosen One, the Messiah of God, the King of the Jews. Ironically, in today’s...
Nov 11, 2019
Readings:
Malachi 3:19–20
Psalm 98:5–9
2 Thessalonians 3:7–12
Luke 21:5–19
It is the age between our Lord’s first coming and His last. We live
in the new world begun by His life, death, Resurrection, and
Ascension, by the sending of His Spirit upon the Church. But we
await the day when He will come again in...
Nov 4, 2019
Readings:
2 Maccabees 7:1–2, 9–14
Psalm 17:1, 5–6, 8, 15
2 Thessalonians 2:16–3:5
Luke 20:27–38
With their riddle about seven brothers and a childless widow, the
Sadducees in today’s Gospel mock the faith for which seven brothers
and their mother die in the First Reading.
The Maccabean martyrs chose...