Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Luke 19: 41-44
November 20, 2025 | Thursday

Today’s Gospel

When Jesus had come in sight of the city, he wept over it, and said, “If only today you knew the ways of peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Yet days will come upon you, when your enemies will surround you with barricades, and shut you in, and press on you from every side. And they will dash you to the ground and your children with you, and not leave stone upon stone within you, for you did not recognize the time and the visitation of your God.”

Today’s Reflection

Jesus is  about  to  enter  Jerusalem,  the city of peace. Unfortunately, He cannot find peace in  it,  as  the  people  in the city do not live  up  to  its  name.  He  Himself  would  experience   pain   and death there. The religious leaders accused Him of blasphemy, leading to  His crucifixion. Before this happened, Jesus prophesied that Jerusalem would experience tremendous trauma: the city was captured by the Romans forty years after His death. Their holiest house of worship, the Temple, was destroyed, and the population of the city was starved and massacred. This tragedy occurred because the city “did not recognize the time and the visitation of your God.” Indeed, peace is only possible when God is at the heart of every individual, when God inspires our actions, and when we seek to glorify Him.

/Vulnerasti, 2025