Gospel: November 14, 2025

November 14, 2025 (Friday)

32nd Week in Ordinary Time

Psalter: Week 4 / (Green)

Ps 19:2-3, 4-5ab

The heavens proclaim the glory of God.

1st Reading: Wisdom of Solomon 13:1-9

Gospel: Luke 17:26-37

As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be on the day the Son of Man comes. In those days’ people ate and drank and got married; but on the day Noah entered the ark, the flood came and destroyed them all. So it was in the days of Lot: people ate and drank, and bought and sold, and planted and built; but on the day Lot left Sodom, God made fire and sulfur rain down from heaven, which destroyed them all.

So will it be on the day the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, if you are on the rooftop, don’t go down into the house to get your belongings; and if you happen to be in the fields, do not turn back. Remember Lot’s wife! Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever gives his life will be born again.

I tell you, though two men are sharing the same bed, it might happen that one will be taken, and the other left; though two women are grinding meal together, one might be taken and the other left.” Then they asked Jesus, “Where will this take place, Lord?” And he answered, “Where the body is, there too will the vultures gather.”

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Reflection:

“All our daily activities are to be done with God in mind.”

In his Confessions, Saint Augustine said that before coming to faith in Christ he had been so dazzled by created things that he forgot to look for the One who created them. In this way, he worshipped earthly things instead of God. Today’s readings point to human ignorance and worldly preoccupations which draw us away from being aware of God’s action.

Noah heeded God’s call and built the ark, while others ignored God and didn’t change their immoral ways. Jesus says that his second coming will also come as suddenly as the flood, and many will be caught unaware. However, the activities mentioned by Jesus are not immoral. They are good activities and many of them are fundamental to life: “people ate and drank and got married,” they “bought and sold, and planted and built.”

None of these are bad. The problem is the lack of connecting these earthly activities to the One who created all things. We are not to live as if God didn’t exist, going about our daily affairs. Rather all our daily activities are to be done with God in mind, remembering that he is the One who gives meaning, purpose and life to all things.