16 November 2025 – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
Malachi 3:19-20a; 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12; Luke 21:5-19
HOMILY
The words we have just heard were written nearly two thousand years ago, and many times during those two thousand years, tragic events seemed to herald the end of the world. First there was the capture of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple, which seem to be what our Gospel is primarily announcing. Then, in the West, there were successive waves of ‘barbarian’ invasions, which marked the end of a society, followed by the Black Death, which killed two-thirds of the population of Europe; and, closer to home, the two World Wars, and since then the constant danger of a nuclear cataclysm.