The Destruction of the Temple Foretold
Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday In The Thirty-Fourth Week Of Ordinary Time Luke 21: 5-11 The Gospel from today until end of Advent are full of warnings about the end times. Now on hearing about them am I to be terrified, not at all because God’s providence will see you/me through whatever […]
The Destruction of the Temple Foretold
Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday Of The Thirty-Fourth Week In Ordinary Time Luke 21:5-11 The Jewish people took great pride in three things: Law, Jerusalem and the Temple. When the last two were destroyed by the Romans in 70AD, the people were completely shattered and they must have thought it was the […]
The Destruction of the Temple Foretold
Reflection on the Gospel of the Thirty-Third Sunday In Ordinary Time Luke 21:5-19 Apocalyptic literature uses unsettling language and imagery as a means to assure the faithful that they should keep their trust in God even when facing the most challenging of circumstances. Sure enough, while describing the terrible events, Jesus tells his listeners […]
The Destruction of the Temple Foretold
Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday In The Thirty-Fourth Week In Ordinary Time Luke 21:5-11 In this entire passage there are two prophecies/instructions mixed… and the Gospel writer is saying both these in the same breath, and that is why, we may confuse them as being one prophecy. The second prophecy is about the […]