Gospel for November 30 2025 – Matthew 24:37-44
Gospel Reflections for November 30 2025
Am I on the right path?
I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving! I 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 of you, so it must be you that is either moving closer or further away!)
The Church is now filled with the color purple. Why is that? It comes from the color of the sky just before dawn, between the black of night and the bright light of sunrise. For centuries, people have found this early morning time useful for peaceful reflection. People used this “purple sky time” before the day even starts 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 these Advent Sundays will help re-orient yourself so that you can celebrate Christmas, and especially the New Year with confidence, courage, hope, and, above all …a spirit of joy!
God Bless!
Fr. Dave
Happy New Liturgical Year. Time to take a serious look at how our lives are looking to our Creator. As we lead our Lives it is important to analyze how we’re looking to God. Advent reminds us to take note how we’re doing.
The Gospels and readings at Mass get more serious and thought provoking.
Getting us primed for the Birth of our Savior Jesus Christ on December 25th..
I welcome this reminder and find it a time of improving my relationship with God and Neighbor.
Let’s look at it with Joy in our minds and hearts!
Well said!
Thanks Father,
Great Gospel Reflections and beautiful food for thought!
Amen🙏
You are very welcome!
Thank you Fr Dave,
Blessings for a wonderful start to our Christmas Advent season!
May it be a fulfillment of all we are needing✝️🙏🏼
God Bless – Kathy & Michael
Have a Blessed Advent!
Beautiful thoughts our precious Father Dave!! To look at our lives and the meaning and purpose to all our actions leading us to Heaven and living our precious Jesus’ love!! Live Love, Jesus’ love and make the world beautiful!!! Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it!! A glorious Advent to you and everyone !!! Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, franca and Dick
Thank you!
Father Heney, thanks to you, I learned to pray the Catholic Rosary online. You used to pray it with your parishioners at your Parish in California, and I managed to memorize it. During the long and harsh Canadian winters, I longed for the climate and my family of California. Praying it brought me calm and peace, and my faith was greatly strengthened.
It is a pleasure to read your posts and meditate on our Catholic Church, the Bible, and the importance of our faith in God. I wish you a blessed Christmas at your Parish.
God bless you.
Thank you for your very kind words! Much appreciated. Yes, I started the Family Rosary Across America on Relevant radio and led it for several years. It was a great and humbling honor to join with so many for this powerful prayer and to pray for the intentions of those who called in from across the country. I am very glad that you find my weekly articles so helpful as well.