A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans 13:11-14
Brothers and sisters: You know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep.
Brothers and sisters: You know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep.
Jesus said to his disciples: “Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap.
I, Daniel, found my spirit anguished within its covering of flesh, and I was terrified by the visions of my mind.
In a vision I, Daniel, saw during the night, the four winds of heaven stirred up the great sea, from which emerged four immense beasts, each different from the others.
Jesus told his disciples a parable.
Some men rushed into the upper chamber of Daniel’s home and found him praying and pleading before his God.
Jesus said to his disciples: “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, know that its desolation is at hand.
King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his lords, with whom he drank.
Jesus said to the crowd: “They will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because of my name.
Then they asked him, “Teacher, when will this happen?