Gospel: October 30, 2025

October 30, 2025 (Thursday)

30th Week in Ordinary Time

Psalter: Week 2 / (Green)

Ps 109:21-22, 26-27, 30-31

Save me, O Lord, in your mercy.

1st Reading: Romans 8:31b-39

Gospel: Luke 13:31-35

At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and gave him this warning, “Leave this place and go on your way, for Herod wants to kill you.” Jesus said to them, “Go and give that fox my answer: ‘I drive out demons, and I heal today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my course!’ Nevertheless, I must go on my way today, and tomorrow, and for a little longer; for it would not be fitting for a prophet to be killed outside Jerusalem. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you slay the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often have I tried to bring together your children, as a bird gathers her young under her wings? But you refused! From now on, you will be left, with your temple. And you will no longer see me until the time when you will say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

Reflection:

“Never doubt God’s steadfast love.”

Saint Paul declares that nothing can separate us from the love of God, “which we have in Jesus Christ our Lord.” This divine love knows no limits and is held back by nothing. We see this in the encounter between the Pharisees and Jesus in today’s Gospel. This group of Pharisees is concerned for his life, since Herod wishes to kill him, and so they tell Jesus to flee, but he will not deviate from his plans. He has come to preach, to heal and to save and nothing will shake him from his task until it is accomplished, since nothing can separate us from the love of God. In his humanity Jesus was like us in all things but sin (cf. Heb 4:14-16), and so he was certainly distressed at the prospect of his Passion in Jerusalem, as we can see in the Garden of Gethsemane (Mt 26:38). But he did not run away in fear; he was always in union with the Father’s will, and trusted always in his Father, since nothing could separate him from his Father’s love. We should never doubt God’s steadfast love. This is the rock on which we can dash all our fears.