Homilies about kingdom

Why God Allows Suffering: The True Kingdom Jesus Brings

The homily connects the Old Testament reading about the fall of Judah and the Babylonian exile to the New Testament Gospel, emphasizing that the kingdom Jesus brings is spiritual, beginning in the heart, rather than a political earthly kingdom. It highlights that the Israelites' suffering was a consequence of their infidelity to the covenant, not God's cruelty, and that true freedom from sin and death is found in God's eternal kingdom, not in worldly power struggles.