The 33rd Sunday of the Year
Mal 3:19-20; 2 Thess 3:7-12; Lk 21:5-19 (Year C)
“The day is coming now, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and evil doers will be like stubble. The day that is coming is going to burn them up, leaving them neither root nor stalk.”
The Old Testament does not understand history as a meaningless cycle in which life and death, joy and sorrow, unfold with neither meaning nor purpose. Time is given meaning and direction as the revelation of God’s saving will. What was begun with the creation of the heavens and the earth reaches forward to its glorious conclusion at the end of time, a New Creation in Christ Jesus.
