Read­ing Time: 2 minutes Intro­duc­tion Accord­ing to the eccle­si­ast­ic­al arrange­ment, the litur­gic­al year ends with this Sunday, the solem­nity of our Lord Jesus Christ, king of the uni­verse. After the teach­ings on wis­dom and fool­ish­ness (Matt 25:1–13), and on the adequate use of tal­ents (Matt 25:14–30), Mat­thew 25:31–46 is the con­clu­sion of the dis­course that will accom­pany the Par­ousia, the judg­ment day when the entire nations will gath­er before the Author of life. Accord­ing to Mat­thew, on that day, all nations, which implies all peoples, will assemble before the…

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Read­ing Time: 2 minutes Intro­duc­tion As the Litur­gic­al year gradu­ally comes to an end, the read­ings also reflect such end. In the pre­vi­ous chapters of the Gos­pel accord­ing to Mat­thew, Jesus used many and dif­fer­ent stor­ies to illus­trate what the king­dom of God looks like. Mat­thew chapters 21–23 con­tain spe­cif­ic ref­er­ences to the king­dom. In those chapters, Jesus reminded the reli­gious lead­ers (priests and eld­ers) that those they regard as sin­ners (tax col­lect­ors, pros­ti­tutes, and oth­ers) make it to the king­dom of God, while they them­selves do not (Matt…

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