Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - Beyond the Black Hole

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 12.1.23 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Luke 21:29-33

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus alerts us to consider
the signs of the passing of all things.
All of the joys, goods, pleasures, and accomplishments of this world
will one day be taken from us.
And this futility extends to all of culture,
all of nature, and even to the cosmos itself.

Physicists tell us that, one day, our earth will be enveloped by the sun. drawing matter and light into itself.
After many more billions of years, the entire universe will run out of energy
and either fade out in a great freeze or burn out in a great fry.

One might be rather easily tempted to despair, to say,
“Why bother?” and “What’s the point?”
Or one might be tempted to say with Jean-Paul Sartre
and his existentialist friends, “La vie est absurde” (life is absurd).

So, we look elsewhere;
we look beyond to the steadfast love of God,
which brought the entire universe into existence from nothing,
which sustains it even now,
and which will one day draw us to a life and a joy beyond it.

[MurphsLaw]

+++Jesus told his disciples a parable.
"Consider the fig tree and all the other trees.
When their buds burst open,
you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near;
in the same way, when you see these things happening,
know that the Kingdom of God is near.
Amen, I say to you, this generation will not pass away
until all these things have taken place.
Heaven and earth will pass away,
but my words will not pass away."+++