This week’s Gospel message for Sunday, November 27th is from Matthew 24:37-44.
“Jesus said to his disciples: ‘As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man…So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.’”
“Today’s Gospel passage opens with the kind of behaviors that Matthew refers to in the time of Noah, when people ignored the call to repentance and continued with their dissolute ways. As a result, they ere caught off guard when the flood came and destroyed the face of the earth. Our responsibility as followers of Christ is not to know how the Lord will judge but rather to be ready for that judgment at any hour.” SOURCE: Workbook for Lectors, Gospel Readers, and Proclaimers of the Word, 2023
DAILY READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday Isaiah 4:2-6; Matthew 8:5-11
Tuesday Isaiah 11:1-10; Luke 10:21-24
Wednesday Romans 10:9-18; Matthew 4:18-22
Saint Andrew, Apostle (Feast) – “A fisherman from Bethsaida, he was a disciple of John the Baptist and, with his brother Simon, was one of the first two who followed Jesus. He was among the twelve apostles selected by Jesus. The cross of St. Andrew, which represents Scotland on the Union Jack, was first associated with Andrew in the tenth century.”
Thursday Isaiah 26:1-6; Matthew 7:21, 24-27
Friday Isaiah 29:17-24; Matthew 9:27-31
Saturday Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26; Matthew 9:35—10:1, 5a, 6-8
Saint Francis Xavier, Priest (Memorial) – “Canonized in 1602, he is the patron of all foreign missions.”
SOURCE: Living With Christ, November 2022 and December 2022