Sunday 33C: "you are not to prepare"

... your defense beforehand, for I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute. Lk 21:5-19

In one place the Scriptures tell us to prepare, but in today's Gospel it seems as though the Lord is instructing us to do the very opposite: do not prepare! But, in fact, what He means is that He Himself is our "preparation"; He Himself will be with us to defend and protect from evil and from eternal separation from Him in the place He describes as "Hades" or "Hell".

To read the full text of homily for Sunday 33, Year C, at A Priest Life, please click here.