16 October 2025 – Thursday of the 28th week of Ordinary Time
Homily
In Luke's Gospel, all of Jesus' teaching takes place in the context of a struggle between the kingdom of God, whose coming Jesus announces, and the forces of evil, represented first by the tempter in the desert, then by the increasingly strong opposition that the Pharisees and Scribes offer to Jesus, until His long journey to Jerusalem, where the forces of evil seem to have triumphed over Him when He is put to death and laid in the tomb, awaiting the final victory of the Son of God on the morning of the Resurrection.