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

Monday of the Thirty-FourthWeek in Ordinary Time The teaching of the widow When he looked up he saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins. He said, “I tell you truly, this… Read More »ENFL351

Thirty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Our Lord Jesus Christ The King The pilgrim’s song I rejoiced when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”  And now our feet are  standing within your gates, Jerusalem. Jerusalem, built as a city,… Read More »ENFS189

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

Friday of the Thirty-ThirdWeek in Ordinary Time The merchants in the temple  Then Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have… Read More »ENFL349

Thursday of the Thirty-ThirdWeek in Ordinary Time The devil always destroys As he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If this day you only knew what makes for peace–but now it is hidden from your eyes. For the days are… Read More »ENFL348

Tuesday of the Thirty-ThirdWeek in Ordinary Time To be sycamores He came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man, was seeking to see who Jesus was;… Read More »ENFL346

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 Give us, oh Lord, a great industriousness  For you know how one must imitate us. For we did not act in a disorderly way among you, nor did we eat food received free from anyone. On the contrary, in toil… Read More »ENFS188

Saturday of the Thirty-SecondWeek in Ordinary Time The need to pray  Then he told them a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said, “There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any… Read More »ENFL343