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Tuesday Nov 26, 2019
Homily for November 26, 2019
Tuesday Nov 26, 2019
Tuesday Nov 26, 2019
As we approach the end of the liturgical year, the readings tend to focus on the darker side of human experience, the experience of destruction, of loss, of conflict, of deception. It is as if the liturgy is in harmony with the dark days of the end of this month of November.
When we begin the new liturgical year next Sunday, the first Sunday of Advent, the days will remain dark, but the liturgical readings will take on a much brighter tone as they invite us to look forward to the coming of the light
In today’s Gospel passage, Jesus speaks of the destruction of the wonderful Temple in Jerusalem, as well as of other dark events. No one looking at the Temple in Jerusalem in Jesus’ day could ever have imagined it being destroyed. After all, it had taken nearly fifty years to build, and it wasn’t quite finished in the time of Jesus. But even the strongest and finest buildings only last so long.
Today’s Gospel calls on us not to get too attached to what does not last. Instead, we are to attach ourselves to the one who says of Himself in Matthew’s gospel that “something greater than the Temple is here.” When all else fails and disappears, He endures, and through our relationship with Him, we too endure. +
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