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Mo NguyenTHIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B
14 NOVEMBER 2021
‘MY WORDS WILL NOT PASS AWAY’
BREAKING OPEN THE WORD
‘MY WORDS WILL NOT PASS AWAY’
(Mark 13: 24-32)
The language of Daniel’s prophecy and Jesus’ dire warnings concerning the day of judgement that will accompany the return of the Son of Man were intended to be deliberately unsettling. In the centuries immediately preceding Jesus’ birth a style of literature developed which is now known as apocalyptic.
The seeds for this style of preaching and literature had been sown earlier by the prophets who had spoken of the day of the Lord. At its heart was the belief that God would forcefully intervene in human history and set in order all that humanity had wounded through violence, sin, and unfaithfulness. It was theological reflection on a large scale since it gave expression to the deep-seated belief that God was the Lord not only of life and death but of human history as well.
Faced with the world that desperately needed to be set in order, the apocalyptic literature expressed the belief that the means that God would use would be cataclysmic, involving the resurrection of the dead prior to the distribution of rewards and punishments. The signs that would accompany this moment of judgement and grace were cosmic, involving the disruption of the natural order of the universe.
It is this mode of expression which Jesus himself uses in speaking of God’s intervention in our world at the coming of the Son of Man. It is crucial to note that while the heavens and earth will be overturned there is a point of reference that does not change or pass away – Jesus’ life-giving word.
CHRISTOPHER MONAGHAN CP
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