Hi everyone. Welcome to our final weekday episode in the Gospel of Luke. So as always, we're going to do

an exegesis of the gospel reading you would hear at today's

Mass.

So, today's reading is Luke chapter 21 verses 34 to 36.

And I'm also going to include verses 37 and 38 as well, because I think those verses round

out this chapter nicely, and you don't actually get to hear verses 37 and 38

at any other time so today we'll read verses 34 through to 38 of Luke chapter 21

jesus said to his disciples watch yourselves or your hearts will be coarsened with

debauchery and drunkenness and the cares of life,

and that day will be sprung on you suddenly like a trap,

for it will come down on every living man on the face of the earth.

Stay awake, praying at all times for the strength to survive all that is going to happen,

and to stand with confidence before the

son of man. And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged

on the mount called Olivet. And early in the morning, all the people came to him in the temple to hear him.

So let's dive into this text.

Jesus has just arrived in Jerusalem for the last week of his life.

He's already cleansed the temple and he's now teaching in the temple.

He's just prior to this, he's been predicting the destruction of the temple.

He's been giving the extended Olivet discourse. And he's been predicting the destruction of the temple. He's been giving the extended

Olivet discourse. And he's been telling his disciples signs that they should be looking out for,

which would indicate that the time for the destruction of the temple is near. So he's now going to

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