First Sunday of Advent The active expectation Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come. It is like a man traveling abroad. He leaves home and places his servants in charge, each with his work, and orders the gatekeeper to… Read More »ENFS064
Saturday of the Thirty-FourthWeek in Ordinary Time The waiting for the one who comes “Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap. For that day… Read More »ENFL356
Friday of the Thirty-FourthWeek in Ordinary Time The ultimate times He taught them a lesson. “Consider the fig tree and all the other trees. When their buds burst open, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near; in the same way, when… Read More »ENFL355
Wednesday of the Thirty-FourthWeek in Ordinary Time The church, salvation of the world “Before all this happens, however, they will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors… Read More »ENFL353
Tuesday of the Thirty-FourthWeek in Ordinary Time The deceivers and the alarmist While some people were speaking about how the temple was adorned with costly stones and votive offerings, he said, “All that you see here–the days will come when there will not be left… Read More »ENFL352
Thirty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Our Lord Jesus Christ the King The Lord is my shepherd The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I lack. In green pastures you let me graze; to safe waters you lead me; you restore my strength. You guide… Read More »ENFS063
Saturday of the Thirty-ThirdWeek in Ordinary Time We are destined to the eternity Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but… Read More »ENFL350
Monday of the Thirty-ThirdWeek in Ordinary Time The reciprocity principle as of nowadays time There sprang from these a sinful offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus, once a hostage at Rome. He became king in the year one hundred and thirty-seven of the kingdom… Read More »ENFL344
Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time The parable of the talents “It will be as when a man who was going on a journey called in his servants … To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one–to each according to his… Read More »ENFS062
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time The second coming of the Lord For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so too will God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the… Read More »ENFS061
