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Homily Thursday, November 20 2025
33rd OT

1 M 2:15-29
"We will keep the covenant of our ancestors."
God's love is the covenant.

Lk 19:41-44
Jesus weeps over Jerusalem: "If this day you only knew what makes for peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes."

Each person is distant by a certain percentage from God's love, from joy, from peace. And these people weep.

The distance of one person, of many people, from God's love is the evil that spreads in the world.

We welcome God's love, and we have missionaries who allow God the Missionary to reach all hearts. Peace and joy increase in the world.

Biblical texts: NAB-RE
Normand Thomas.

Homily Friday, November 21 2025
33rd OT

1M 4:36-37, 52-59
"For eight days they celebrated the dedication of the altar and joyfully offered burnt offerings and sacrifices of deliverance and praise."

Joy and bliss, is the feast of the Heart to hearts, of God with us, in our being.

Luke 19:45-48
The Presentation of Mary in the Temple inspires us to present ourselves to God, in order to receive from Him all that we need in the present moment.

A suggestion to achieve this: let us follow this recommendation from Pope Saint John XXIII: "Let us simplify complicated things and not complicate simple things."

Jesus repeats what is written: "My house shall be a house of prayer."

Mary is a person in prayer. Prayer is to be in the presence of God.

Lord, thank you for being with us and in all people.

May each person allow Jesus to open their heart so that His Love may pass through them and touch the hearts of others along the way.

Biblical texts: NAB-RE
Normand Thomas.

Homily Saturday, November 22 2025
33rd OT

1 M 6:1-13
"The king fell sick with grief because his designs had failed, he took to his be."

Designs outside of the Lord bares no fruit.

The king realized: "Now I remember the evil I did in Jerusalem."-

The king was inconsolable.

Let us commit evil to God in the sacrament of forgiveness, and live in peace. This will help others to live in peace with us.

Lk 20:27-40
Jesus says that God: "is not God of the dead, but of the living."

God gives us life, he does not take it away. God cannot take away what he gives us: all his graces, including life.

We are in a passage, but life always continues in God.

Biblical texts: NAB-RE
Normand Thomas.