28 November 2025 (Friday) / Ordinary Weekday/ Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time

28 November 2025 (Friday)

Ordinary Weekday/ Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time.

Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:

First Reading: Daniel 7: 2-14
Responsorial Psalm: Daniel 3: 75-81
Alleluia: Luke 21: 28
Gospel: Luke 21: 29-33

First Reading: Daniel 7: 2-14

I saw in my vision by night, and behold the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts, different one from another, came up out of the sea. The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her. And behold another beast like a bear stood up on one side: and there were three rows in the mouth thereof, and in the teeth thereof, and thus they said to it: Arise, devour much flesh. After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, and it had upon it four wings as of a fowl, and the beast had four heads, and power was given to it. After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron teeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with its feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before it, and had ten horns. I considered the horns, and behold another little horn sprung out of the midst of them: and three of the first horns were plucked up at the presence thereof: and behold eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things. I beheld till thrones were placed, and the Ancient of days sat: his garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like clean wool: his throne like flames of fire: the wheels of it like a burning fire. A swift stream of fire issued forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood before him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened. I beheld because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke: and I saw that the beast was slain, and the body thereof was destroyed, and given to the fire to be burnt: And that the power of the other beasts was taken away: and that times of life were appointed them for a time, and a time. I beheld therefore in the vision of the night, and lo, one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and he came even to the Ancient of days: and they presented him before him. And he gave him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed.

Responsorial Psalm: Daniel 3: 75-81

R. Give glory and eternal praise to him!
O ye mountains and hills, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
R. Give glory and eternal praise to him!
O all ye things that spring up in the earth, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
R. Give glory and eternal praise to him!
O ye fountains, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
R. Give glory and eternal praise to him!
O ye seas and rivers, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
R. Give glory and eternal praise to him!
O ye whales, and all that move in the waters, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
R. Give glory and eternal praise to him!
O all ye fowls of the air, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
R. Give glory and eternal praise to him!
O all ye beasts and cattle, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
R. Give glory and eternal praise to him!

Alleluia: Luke 21: 28
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
28 Stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand.
(20. 'When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you must realise that it will soon be laid desolate.
21. Then those in Judaea must escape to the mountains, those inside the city must leave it, and those in country districts must not take refuge in it.
22. For this is the time of retribution when all that scripture says must be fulfilled.
23. Alas for those with child, or with babies at the breast, when those days come!
24. 'For great misery will descend on the land and retribution on this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive to every gentile country; and Jerusalem will be trampled down by the gentiles until their time is complete.
25. 'There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; on earth nations in agony, bewildered by the turmoil of the ocean and its waves;
26. men fainting away with terror and fear at what menaces the world, for the powers of heaven will be shaken.
27. And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28. When these things begin to take place, stand erect, hold your heads high, because your liberation is near at hand.')
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel: Luke 21: 29-33

And he spoke to them in a similitude. See the fig tree, and all the trees: When they now shoot forth their fruit, you know that summer is nigh; So you also, when you shall see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is at hand. Amen, I say to you, this generation shall not pass away, till all things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

For our reflection today:

“Heaven and earth will pass away”, Jesus says, “but my words will not pass away” (v. 31). This is the true crux. On that day, each of us will have to understand whether the Word of the Son of God has illuminated our personal existence, or whether we turned our back to it, preferring to trust in our own words. More than ever, it will be the moment in which to abandon ourselves definitively to the Father’s love and to entrust ourselves to his mercy. No one can escape this moment, none of us! Shrewdness, which we often instil in our conduct in order to validate the image we wish to offer, will no longer be useful; likewise, the power of money and of economic means with which we pretentiously presume to buy everything and everyone, will no longer be of use. We will have with us nothing more than what we have accomplished in this life by believing in his Word: the all and nothing of what we have lived or neglected to fulfil. We will take with us only what we have given. (Pope Francis, Angelus, 18 November 2018)

Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Most High Servant,
Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love (Blessed  and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)