Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 2024

Title

The Son of Man Breaks into Darkness

Outline

The world is looking for the wrong type of Messiah

It is the ruler who will bring prosperity, the ruler who will bring power, the ruler who will bring security, the ruler who will bring honor, and even the ruler who will bring pleasure. That is ultimately a lie, for it seeks the desires of our passions which are influenced by the devil.

Those types of rulers bring the opposite, although because they live a lie they blame others for their failure. But this is the story of world history.

There is darkness before the light

While Jesus speaks of tribulation affecting “this generation” which could mean either the Church down the ages or the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, this has happened repeatedly: Rome would later fall and much later the New Rome of Constantinople. The Holy Roman Empire would break up and later Napoleon and Hitler and the USSR would rise and fall. And those are only some of the big ones in the West. Many think that the USA is losing its grip, but do not be afraid, for such things must happen says Jesus and Daniel.

Second, those whose hope is in God, who look for the Son of Man, will be protected.

Michael, the great prince, the guardian will protect his people. Everyone found written in the book will escape. The Son of Man’s angels will gather his elect from the four winds. And for all there will be a resurrection, but only for some will it mean everlasting life. Not those who seek a return to the golden age of Rome or Constantinople or London or Berlin or the USA eastern megacity, Boston to Washington. Not those whose hope is in the values of this age. But those who look for and and already serve the Son of Man.

And the protection is not necessarily from death but through death to resurrection and glorification.

Sisters, I am not predicting the end of the age

That is something that only the Father knows.

What we know is that putting our trust in a human being or seeking power or wealth or honor or pleasure is the way to be part of the next crash. And there will be another crash, whether it is proximate or ultimate.

And what we know is that Michael and his angels protect us, our Mother cares for us, and so if we keep our eyes up on the Son of Man and follow his directives we are safe. It will be good, very good, all manner of things will be good.

My Jesus, I trust in you.