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Podcast: Bishop Barronâs Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Episode: The Old World Has Been Shaken
Description: Friends, we come to the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, which means that next Sunday is the final Sunday of the liturgical year. During this time, the Church always gives us apocalyptic readings, and our Gospel today is from âthe little apocalypseâ in the Gospel of Luke. Apokalypsis in Greek does not mean âend of the worldâ; it means âunveilingââtaking away the kalyptra, the veil. This is why, when apokalypsis is rendered in Latin, we get revelatio, revelationâtaking the velum, the veil, away. So apocalyptic literature is all about the showing forth of a new world. But that has to be preceded...