Lectio Commentary: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
In Luke 21:5-19, on this penultimate Sunday of the liturgical year, Jesus foretells Jerusalem's temple destruction—a prophecy fulfilled in 70 AD—and the end-times tribulations preceding his glorious return. Amid wars, famines, earthquakes, plagues, and persecution, he urges believers to witness courageously, relying on the Holy Spirit, and persevere faithfully to the end.
Lectio Divina: Feast of the dedication of the Lateran basilica
Ezekiel’s east‑flowing stream, deepening from ankle to waist, prefigures the Holy Spirit’s progressive sanctifying action; its life‑giving flood heals the Dead Sea and bears perpetual fruit, echoing Eden’s River and Revelation’s crystal river from the throne. Thus, the vision points to the Spirit’s mission to renew all creation in the world.
Jesus’s zeal for the temple exposes its corruption, driving out merchants and money‑changers, fulfilling prophecy that God’s house be a house of prayer. His act prefigures the temple’s destruction and the new worship in Christ’s body, the living Temple.
Lectio Divina: 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)
says that everything the Father gives will come to Christ, and all who come to Him will not be turned away; the Father’s will is that everyone who sees and believes in the Son receives eternal life and is raised on the last day. Catholic teaching reads this as divine initiative inviting free response, not a Calvinist predestination that nullifies human freedom.
Lectio Divina: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)
Lk 18:9-14→ Jesus tells a Pharisee who boasts of fasting, tithing, and prayer, and a humble tax‑collector who beats his breast, saying, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner.” The Lord declares the sinner justified, while the self‑righteous man is humbled. The parable teaches that true righteousness rests on humility and reliance on God’s mercy, not on personal merit. It calls every believer to examine the heart, to replace pride with contrite prayer, and to trust that God exalts the humble.