St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church
New Port Richey, FL:
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
In today’s First Reading, it’s like we have our ears pressed to the wall and can hear the murderous grumblings of the elders, chief priests, and scribes—who last week Jesus predicted would torture and kill Him (see Mark 8:31 ; 10:33–34 ).
The liturgy invites us to see this passage from the Book of Wisdom as a prophecy of the Lord’s Passion. We hear His enemies complain that “the Just One” has challenged their authority, reproached them for breaking the law of Moses, for betraying their training as leaders and teachers.
And we hear chilling words that foreshadow how they…
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The Holy Spirit enables us to do ordinary things with extraordinary results. – Jack Graham
