30 November 2025, Scourmont
First Sunday of Advent ‘A’
Is 2:1-5; Rom 13:11, 14a; Mt 24:37-44
Homily
The evangelist Matthew organizes his Gospel around several major discourses of Jesus. At the beginning of his book, in what we call the Sermon on the Mount, the heart of which is the Beatitudes, he brings together several of Jesus' teachings on prayer, almsgiving, fasting and many other fundamental themes. Then, at the end of the Gospel, when Jesus has already entered Jerusalem, driven the merchants from the Temple, and confronted the Pharisees violently, and when he knows that His end is near, Matthew reports one after another several of Jesus' discourses on the end of all human life, beginning with His own.