The Catholic Calendar for Friday, November 28, 2003
Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
Daniel 7:2-14
Daniel 3:75-81
Luke 21:29-33

A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:

I am so grateful for today's Gospel. I just can't take the apocalyptical style of writing in the Book of Daniel any more! I feel like my mind is just going to explode if I have to try to picture, much less understand, what is written!

Isn't that often the way life is -- confusing, coded? Things rarely straightforward, people honest? Too frequently the real agenda and people's motives are never expressed, but surface their way, nevertheless, into being by the consequences they elicit.

Although Jesus' parables were often misunderstood and are indeed sometimes cryptic, He usually had a word or a line associated with them that was startlingly clear. So clear in fact, that some readers might think there has to be more to it - like some secret message -- as if what Jesus said was too simple.

In today's Gospel Jesus says: Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. There is nothing there to figure out. Only God and His Word never change. Period! Don't look for nuances -- just stick with the words. Say them over -- and over again if necessary. Let them sink in:


Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.



....never!



- Donna Nelson, ocds (drn3rd at hotmail dot com)

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