4 December 2025 - Thursday of the 1st week of Advent
Isaiah 26:1-6; Matthew 7:21, 24-27
Homily
The few verses of the Gospel we have just read are the end of what we call the Sermon on the Mount, that long discourse in which Matthew brings together all the most important elements of Jesus' teaching. After these few verses, Matthew adds a conclusion, which we have not read, which is: ‘When Jesus had finished these discourses, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.’