Reposted by Fr. Stephen Vrazel
Fr. Stephen Vrazel
@keytarcatholic.bsky.social
516 followers 134 following 838 posts
Roman Catholic priest who plays the keytar (tweets do not represent my parishes nor my archdiocese)
Roman Catholic priest who plays the keytar (tweets do not represent my parishes nor my archdiocese)
![Page from Words Without Alloy that reads:
The Arrangement of Ordinary Time (IV)
Before the meetings, Schürmann envisioned that the last sixteen Sundays of a single-year cycle would be given to Matthew. Then the revisers envisioned that a third and final group of Sundays would begin after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on September 14. They wanted these readings to have an eschatological color drawing from the apocalypses of the Old Testament books of Isaiah, Daniel, and Zechariah and New Testament books such as Revelation, the letters to the Thessalonians, and the last judgment scene from Matthew 25.
Similar passages in Advent would focus on the messianic sense of eschatology.298 Commentary on the first draft noted the inclusion of eschatological parables of Matthew, eschatological sermons and parables of mercy from Luke, with the judgment of Christ the King at the end.
Commentary on the third draft explained more:
Thus naturally are found in the last Sundays after Pentecost the eschatological theme: for the last chapters [of the gospels] before the Passion treat of eschatology in a more or less extensive way. In the year of Matthew are found eschatological parables, such as the parables of the ten virgins and of the talents, and the prophecies of the Lord about the last judgment are best placed on the last Sunday of Christ the King of the Universe. The years of Mark and Luke also offer eschatological pericopes for these last Sundays.
The two letters to the Thessalonians, originally assigned to Years A and B, would come in the last Sundays, due to their eschatological character.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wcbsukylrhjqpal7gvsp7mit/bafkreif5rdm7o5bp7mfleyzvqww4zdwfxaohtzywaj6fyephccgy4glc7u)
