6 December 2025 - Saturday of the 1st week of Advent
Is 30, 19-21.Is 30, 19-21. 23-26; Mt 9, 35--10, 1. 6-823-26; Mt 9, 35--10, 1. 6-8
Homily
The rabbis of Jesus' time surrounded themselves with a few disciples, with whom they lived in a school or on the outskirts of a town. Jesus chose a completely different style. He was an itinerant rabbi who did not wait for the disciples to come to Him, but rather went out to meet them Himself. He did not train his disciples with long speeches, but simply involved them in His missionary journeys and also sent them on mission to these crowds ‘ tired and downcast like sheep without a shepherd ’. He was by no means in the tradition of the priests of His time (preoccupied with sacrifices and the people's money) and even less in that of the Pharisees (a haughty elite), but rather in that of the great prophets of Israel.