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We stand at the beginning of the liturgical year – the year of Matthew – in this First Sunday of Advent.
We have arrived at the last Sunday of the liturgical year, the solemnity of Christ the King. Let us reflect upon what it means to have Jesus Christ as our King.
The first reading, from the book of the prophet Malachi, speaks of this day of reckoning, burning like an oven, that will burn up evil doers and the arrogant.
The first reading, from the Book of Maccabees, presents to us the martyrdom of several brothers and their mother, who were refusing to eat food that was unclean in the eyes of the Jewish faith.
Let us reflect today upon Zacchaeus, and the root cause of our dignity as human beings, as sons and daughters of God.
The 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time brings to us the concluding words of Jesus from the Gospel of Luke: “[W]hoever exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted” (Lk 18:14).