A “Day Of The Lord”
By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Thirty-Third Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR C) Readings: Mal. 3:19-202 Thess. 3:7-12Luke 21:5-19 In the Gospel reading, our Lord tells His apostles about the destruction of the Temple and, ultimately, the end of the world. The Temple was destroyed by the Romans in the year AD 70 Along with the Temple, the entire city of Jerusalem was destroyed. More than a million Jewish people were killed, and the city was burned to the ground.This is important for us to understand for two reasons. First, Jerusalem is the only city in the ancient world to be burned to the ground. Second, the destruction of Jerusalem is a prefiguration of what will happen at the end of the…Continue Reading