Daily Mass Gospel Refection - Dust in The Wind

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 11.17.22 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Luke 19:41-44

Friends, in today’s Gospel passage,
Jesus laments over Jerusalem because it failed to acknowledge him.
He says, “They will smash you to the ground and your children within you,
and they will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
This is a thunderclap, a shock, a highly subversive thing to say.
It would be something like a president-elect coming upon the White House in the midst of a crowd of his supporters and saying,
“All of this will be destroyed.”

But this is precisely what Jesus does here.
I know I’ve said it to you before, but I will say it again,
because it belongs to the heart of the Gospel
and it is repeated by Jesus over and over again:
nothing in this world lasts.
Nothing in this world should, therefore,
be the object of our deepest longings
or of our most powerful commitments.

[MurphsLaw]

+++As Jesus drew near Jerusalem,
he saw the city and wept over it, saying,
“If this day you only knew what makes for peace–
but now it is hidden from your eyes.
For the days are coming upon you
when your enemies will raise a palisade against you;
they will encircle you and hem you in on all sides.
They will smash you to the ground
and your children within you,
and they will not leave one stone upon another within you
because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”+++

[Rock N Jones]

“nothing in this world lasts”

2 Peter 3 KJV
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

[MurphsLaw]

"All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see.."