4th Sunday, November 2015

Hi! and happy holy and family day to all of us; and, it's just 33 days to go before Christmas, GUYS.  Our first-thing-first this Sunday:

THE GOOD NEWS (22 November 2015)

                1st Reading  :  Daniel 7:13-14

                Psalm           :  Psalm 93:1-5

                2nd Reading:  Revelation 1:5-8

                Gospel         :  John 18:33-37

"I continued watching the nocturnal vision:

One like a son of man came on the clouds of heaven.  He faced the One of Great Age and was brought into his presence. 

Dominion, honor and kingship  were given him, and all the peoples and nations of every language served him.  His dominion is eternal and shall never pass away; his kingdom will never be destroyed." - Daniel 7:13-14

(On the clouds of heaven:  the cloud is the sign of the divine presence.

The One of Great Age:  this refers to GOD, and the white hair is a sign of HIS majesty.  Let us not forget that, in fact, GOD is ageless and is in a unique moment, an ever present now.

A son of man, namely, a human:  at first, this mysterious person referred to the whole people of GOD.  If GOD wanted to give HIS Kingdom to people, he would, in fact, give it in a personal way to the one who is the model, the savior and the head of the everyone and of all humankind.  JESUS is the man, or, to follow the Jewish way of speaking, the son of man.

The son of man comes from the divine clouds, and so JESUS applied the prophecy to HIMSELF to point to HIS divine origin when HIS accusers were seeing HIM in the weakness of the human condition.)