Gospel for November 27 2022 – Matthew 24:37-44
Gospel Reflections for November 27 2022
Is this the right direction?
I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving. I also want to especially welcome all those who had the courage and strength to travel in this hectic holiday season! Welcome home!
I hope your Thanksgiving Day was filled with great food, great football, and maybe even great political conversations, hopefully always given in a spirit of love and respect. After all, there are important political events right now. However, today’s Gospel paints a picture of the end of the world! That puts everything in a much larger and more serious perspective.
Today’s Gospel, and this whole Season of Advent, invites you to reflect on your life in a deeper and more serious way. Taking the time to see the larger perspective and direction of your life is healthy and wise. It helps you ask the right questions to make sure you are on the right path for lasting happiness.
- Is this the path I should have to achieve the goals I want?
- Are these the good and moral people I should be associating with?
- Is this the right direction my life should be going?
These questions are a good start, and the answers will be helpful, but they should lead to the most important question of all.
- Am I getting closer …or further away from God?
(God is always the same unconditionally loving person, so it must be you that is either moving closer or further away!)
This Advent Season is a good time to remember why the Church is filled with the color purple. It comes from the color of the sky just before dawn, between the blackness of night and the bright light of sunrise. For thousands of years, people have found this early morning time useful for quiet and peaceful reflection. Maybe because this “purple sky time” is before the day even starts people have used it to prepare themselves on a deeper level for the day to come. Why rush into any day if you don’t know why you are doing …whatever it is that you are doing!
Sunday Mass is a perfect one hour event each week that deeply connects you with the God of the universe and the loving creator of the very life you have. I hope the Sundays of Advent will help re-orient yourself so that you can celebrate Christmas, and especially start the New Year with confidence, courage, hope, and, above all …a spirit of joy!
God Bless!
Fr. Dave
Advent has always been a special time for me as it tells me Christmas and a New Year are on
The way and close by.. However in a Spiritual sense it is a time if introspection of how I am shaping up as a Father ,Husband, Member of the Community and assisting those in need .
Lord I pray that little by little, I am improving and can be of some credit to my Faith Family and Parish.
Lead me Lord on the Path of Eternal Life this Advent Season. AMEN
Appreciate your explanation of the color purple and the advent season.
Thank you Fr. Dave!
Your reflection is a reminder f hw I should be. With what is going on in this world and especially our country we need t realize that our only hope is in our relationship to our Lord and do what He wants us to do.
No matter what the situation, seek him first.
I am in convalescent care right now as I broke 4 ribs (when I do things —I do them right).. The good part is all the fallen away Catholics and even some who are still practicing their faith. It is a great time to share and pray with Catholics and people of Christian faith.
I am waiting t find another place to live as the Doctor doesn’t want me going up and down stairs, but in the mean time, it is a thrill to see what God has for me. I share this because I believe that we all need the excitement of seeing what God has for us day by day and the success it brings when just one life is touched by Our Lord.
I pray for you and and all the Priest for the privilege you have in changing the lives of many. I pray you never give up on this awesome job of servanthood to Our Lord. What a blessing.
Dear Father Dave,
I watched an “end of the world” film yesterday, and although fiction, it depicted human behavior with such truth, demonstrating love and hate, goodness and wickedness, forgiveness and acceptance, strength and weakness.
The film didn’t showcase God, but strangely, He was present in the goodness of humanity.
The end times are mysterious, no doubt!
The season of Advent gives us a unique sense of adventure to explore our behavior, our relationships with others, and with God.
Thank you for your grace-filled work. May God continue to bless you abundantly.
Kathleen
Beautiful commentary our precious Father Dave!!!! Life is such a precious gift of love from our loving God!!!!To live life with our precious Jesus IN THE CENTER OF OUR HEARTS is to live His loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Every time I receive our loving Jesus in the Holy Eucharist I feel I receive not only his precious Body and Blood but his precious LOVE111 Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it!!! Loveeeeeeeeeeeeee Advent, loveeeeeeeeeeeee Christmas loveeeeeeeeeee our precious Jesus!!! Thank you Father Dave for giving jesus to us!!! Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, Franca and Dick
Thank you!