Tuesday 9 December 2025
St Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
Isaiah 40:1-11. The Lord our God comes in strength – Ps 95(96):1-3, 10-13. Matthew 18:12-14.
Word of God will stand forever
There are many voices directed towards Jerusalem in these days and months because of the war with Hamas in Gaza. Would that the words of God in the first reading today, spoken through Isaiah long ago, could touch the hearts of the Israeli War Cabinet today: ‘Comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.’ The parable of the lost sheep in today’s Gospel concludes with the words of the Lord, ‘it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish’. When we hear those words, who cannot think of Gaza? Isaiah again: ‘The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God will stand forever.’
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