Gospel: November 29, 2025
November 29, 2025 (Saturday)
34th Week in Ordinary Time
Psalter: Week 2 (Green/White)
Blessed Virgin Mary
Dn 3:82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87
Give glory and eternal praise to him.
1st Reading: Daniel 7:15-27
Gospel: Luke 21:34-36
Be on your guard: don’t immerse yourselves in a life of pleasure, drunkenness and worldly cares, lest that day catch you unaware, like a trap! For, like a snare, will that day come upon all the inhabitants of the earth. But watch at all times and pray, that you may be able to escape all that is going to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Reflection:
“Christ is the source of judgment and reward.”
The apocalyptic imagery of the Prophet Daniel is very dramatic, fearsome and full of battles and beasts. The imagery is a way to present the perennial truth of human pride, which gets in the way of the love, justice, peace and joy that belong to God´s Kingdom (cf. Rom 14:17). The sin of pride is destructive to our relationships, both with each other and with God, as it sees others as either a threat or merely as a stepping stone to greater power or prestige. In this way, Daniel describes the nations seeking to conquer each other rather than cooperate. We live in a time of much upheaval and global conflict, and pride, greed or revenge can induce leaders to raise the clenched fist instead of extending the open hand. Daniel is reminding us that war and conflict will happen, but injustice and violence will not have the last word, as “judgement will come” and “the holy ones of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, to possess it eternally.” Christ is the source of both that judgement and that reward, so we look to him with confidence and continue to be instruments of his peace.
