Glimpses of the Gospel

Glimpses of the Gospel

By Fr. Rodrigo AguilarReligion & Spirituality
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Glimpses of the Gospel episodes

  • November 20th, XXXIII Saturday in Ordinary Time
    + Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 20: 27 – 40
    Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’
    Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless. Then the second and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her.”
    Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.
    That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called ‘Lord’ the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
    Some of the scribes said in reply, “Teacher, you have answered well.”
    And they no longer dared to ask him anything.
    The Gospel of the Lord.
    8 min
  • November 19th, 2021 - XXXIII Friday in Ordinary Time
    + Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 19: 45 – 48
    Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.’”
    And every day he was teaching in the temple area. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile, were seeking to put him to death, but they could find no way to accomplish their purpose because all the people were hanging on his words.
    The Gospel of the Lord
    11 min
  • November 18, 2021- XXXIII Thursday in Ordinary Time

    + Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 19: 41 – 44

     

    "As he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, "If this day you only knew what makes for peace - but now it is hidden from your eyes. For the days are coming upon you when your enemies will raise a palisade against you; they will encircle you and hem you in on all sides. They will smash you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not recognize the time of your visitation."

     

    The Gospel of the Lord

    8 min
  • November 17, 2021 - XXXIII Wednesday in Ordinary Time and and Memorial of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
    + Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 19: 11 – 28
    While they were listening to Jesus speak, he proceeded to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God would appear there immediately.
    So he said, "A nobleman went off to a distant country to obtain the kingship for himself and then to return. He called ten of his servants and gave them ten gold coins and told them, 'Engage in trade with these until I return.'
    His fellow citizens, however, despised him and sent a delegation after him to announce, 'We do not want this man to be our king.'
    But when he returned after obtaining the kingship, he had the servants called, to whom he had given the money, to learn what they had gained by trading.
    The first came forward and said, 'Sir, your gold coin has earned ten additional ones.'
    He replied, 'Well done, good servant! You have been faithful in this very small matter; take charge of ten cities.'
    Then the second came and reported, 'Your gold coin, sir, has earned five more.'
    And to this servant too he said, 'You, take charge of five cities.'
    Then the other servant came and said, 'Sir, here is your gold coin; I kept it stored away in a handkerchief, for I was afraid of you, because you are a demanding person; you take up what you did not lay down and you harvest what you did not plant.'
    He said to him, 'With your own words I shall condemn you, you wicked servant. You knew I was a demanding person, taking up what I did not lay down and harvesting what I did not plant; why did you not put my money in a bank? Then on my return I would have collected it with interest.'
    And to those standing by he said, 'Take the gold coin from him and give it to the servant who has ten.'
    But they said to him, 'Sir, he has ten gold coins.'
    'I tell you, to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. Now as for those enemies of mine who did not want me as their king, bring them here and slay them before me.'"
    After he had said this, he proceeded on his journey up to Jerusalem.
    The Gospel of the Lord
    8 min
  • November 16th, 2021 - XXXIII Tuesday in Ordinary Time+ Memorial of Saint Margaret of Scotland

    + Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 19: 1 – 10


    Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man, was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he could not see him because of the crowd, for he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus, who was about to pass that way.

    When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house." And he came down quickly and received him with joy.

    When they all saw this, they began to grumble, saying, "He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner." 

    But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, "Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone I shall repay it four times over."

    And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a descendant of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost."


    The Gospel of the Lord

    8 min
  • November 15th, 2021- XXXIII Monday in Ordinary Time
    + Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 18: 35 – 43
    Now as he approached Jericho a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging, and hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what was happening. They told him, "Jesus of Nazareth is passing by." He shouted, "Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!"
    The people walking in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent, but he kept calling out all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"
    Then Jesus stopped and ordered that he be brought to him; and when he came near, Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" He replied, "Lord, please let me see." Jesus told him, "Have sight; your faith has saved you."
    He immediately received his sight and followed him, giving glory to God. When they saw this, all the people gave praise to God.
    The Gospel of the Lord
    9 min
  • November 14th, 2021 - XXXIII Sunday in Ordinary Time
    + Holy Gospel according to Saint Mark 13: 24 – 32
    Jesus said to his disciples,
    "But in those days after that tribulation the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see 'the Son of Man coming in the clouds' with great power and glory, and then he will send out the angels and gather (his) elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of the sky.
    "Learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near. In the same way, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, at the gates.
    Amen, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. "But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
    The Gospel of the Lord.
    10 min
  • November 13, 2021 - XXXII Saturday in Ordinary Time
    + Memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin+
    Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 18: 1 – 8
    Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said, “There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being. And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary.’
    For a long time, the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.'”
    The Lord said, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says. Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them? I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
    The Gospel of the Lord.
    8 min
  • November 12th, 2021 - XXXII Friday in Ordinary Time
    + Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 17: 26 – 37
    Jesus said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
    Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all. So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, someone who is on the housetop and whose belongings are in the house must not go down to get them, and likewise one in the field must not return to what was left behind.
    Remember the wife of Lot. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it. I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left.”
    They said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?”
    He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather.”
    The Gospel of the Lord.
    11 min
  • November 11th, 2021- XXXII Thursday in Ordinary Time, and Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop

    A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 17: 20 – 25


    Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he said in reply, "The coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, 'Look, here it is,' or, 'There it is.' For behold, the kingdom of God is among you."

    Then he said to his disciples, "The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. There will be those who will say to you, 'Look, there he is,' (or) 'Look, here he is.' Do not go off, do not run in pursuit. For just as lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be (in his day). But first he must suffer greatly and be rejected by this generation.

    The Gospel of the Lord

    9 min

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Daily readings from the Gospel and a brief audio comment by Father Rodrigo Aguilar, Dioceses of San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina.