Homily for the Thirty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time
November 19, 2023
Saint Patrick Cathedral
Fort Worth, Texas
Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31
Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5
First Thessalonians 5:1-6
Matthew 25:14-30
Saint Paul writes to the Thessalonians and through the liturgical proclamation of this epistle, to us, “(We) are children of the light, and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober.” This means that through the virtue of faith, that the Holy Spirit gives us as members of the Church at Baptism, we can see the world as it really is, as created by God as good, as wounded by the evil of sin, and as redeemed by Christ who will call us into the eternal Kingdom when this world comes to an end.
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