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Commentary on the Gospel – November 14, 2025
What happened in the days of Noah is still happening today. And most likely it will keep happening tomorrow. Because we human beings —no matter our race, culture, or nation— love to think that everything stays the same, that we live in a stable and safe world. That’s why any kind of change, even a small one, unsettles and scares us.
I remember the years I spent living in a university residence. Every time someone suggested a change, the students always reacted the same way, with two classic lines: “We’ve always done it this way” or “We’ve never done it that way.” In other words, an automatic rejection of anything new. The funny thing is that these students had only been there for two or three years. Hardly enough time to talk about “always” or “never.”
The truth is that we live in a world that is constantly changing, whether we want to see it or not. There are moments when we eat and drink, go about our lives, get married… and then suddenly a visitor arrives, a government changes, an illness appears, an accident happens, a war breaks out… and everything is turned upside down in a moment.
Jesus’ comment is not a threat about the end of the world. (It would actually be interesting to reflect on what we mean by “the end of the world,” since we often confuse it with the end of our small world.) Jesus simply reminds us that life is always moving, always changing: our bodies grow older, our ideas evolve, our ways of thinking shift, and even our loves change. Clinging to the past, trying to keep doing things the way we always have, is not only useless —it’s literally impossible. What is wiser is to keep our minds open so we can live the gift of life that God keeps giving us day by day.
A professor of mine used to say that God —the God of Jesus— is waiting for us in the future. He would say God waits for us just around the corner. But to see Him, we need eyes that are fully open to whatever life places in front of us. Otherwise, by trying to repeat the same things over and over, we might fail to recognize God’s face when He meets us around the next corner.