The Writing on the Wall

Catholic Homily for November 26, 2025

Wednesday, 26 November 2025 — Ordinary Weekday
Daniel 5:1–6, 13–14, 16–17, 23–28 • Luke 21:12–19

We live by notifications. Pings and badges flash across our screens—urgent banners demanding immediate response. They shout “now,” but they rarely ask “why.” We react to the alert rather than reflect on its meaning. We’re trained to swipe, tap, respond. The message dissolves into the next one. We’re busy but not awake.

Daniel’s story presents a different kind of alert—one that cannot be ignored or dismissed. A hand appears and writes on the wall of Belshazzar’s palace. The king is feasting, using sacred vessels stolen from the temple, flattering himself and his gods. He has forgotten the Giver. The writing is not a notification to be swiped away. It is truth that demands to be read: “Weighed, and found wanting.”

The verdict is neither cruel nor surprising. God simply names what is already true.

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The Cost of Witness

Jesus prepares His disciples for a different kind of pressure. Not the constant noise of notifications, but the sharp clarity of persecution. “They will arrest you… you will be hated… betrayed.” He doesn’t soften it or promise escape. Instead, He reframes it: “This will give you an opportunity to bear witness.”

Persecution is not a glitch in the plan—it’s a stage for testimony. When you stand before authorities, when your faith is questioned, when everything in you wants to defend yourself and retreat, Jesus says something remarkable: “Make up your minds not to prepare your defense beforehand; for I myself will give you a wisdom… that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict.”

God still supplies. When fidelity costs, His wisdom is given. When you’re asked to speak, His words will come. By your endurance—not by winning arguments or escaping difficulty—you will gain your lives. You will become who you were meant to be.

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Reading What God Writes

Two lights emerge for today.

First, God still writes. Not in fingertip fire on palace walls, but through conscience, Scripture, and the faces of the poor. Through the quiet voice that names what is wanting in us. Through the words of Scripture that suddenly speak directly to our situation. Through the eyes of someone in need, reminding us what matters. Read the message before the night ends. Don’t let the next notification distract you from the writing that matters.

Second, God still supplies. When you’re called to speak truth that costs, His wisdom is given. When you’re tempted to compromise to avoid conflict, His strength sustains you. When endurance seems impossible, grace meets you.

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Living Between Warning and Witness

How do we live between the warning and the witness?

Weigh your heart. Take five quiet minutes. Let God name what is wanting—pride disguised as conviction, compromise dressed as prudence, indifference masquerading as compassion. Don’t defend. Don’t explain. Simply listen and let Him read what’s true.

Put back what is God’s. Return reverence to holy things. Guard prayer time as sacred. Speak God’s name with care. Treat the needy as sacred. Stop borrowing what belongs to Him—His time, His truth, His worship—for lesser purposes.

Accept the cue to speak. When faith is tested today—and it will be—answer simply and calmly. Don’t rehearse. Don’t prepare a defense. Trust that Christ will supply the words. Your task is faithfulness; the eloquence is His gift.

Choose endurance over escape. Keep the good you have begun. Daily prayer. Honest work. A promised mercy. Hold these even when holding costs. Endurance is not grim determination; it is faithfulness that gradually forms you into the likeness of Christ.

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The New Writing

The wall once bore a sentence of judgment. But the Cross bears a Savior. That is the writing we must read and reread: mercy written in blood, pardon inscribed in wounded hands, hope written across the stone rolled away.

Read His mercy. Stand your ground. Let endurance write a new line in your life—a line that says: I belonged to Christ, and Christ kept me faithful even when it cost.

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Lord, write Your truth on my heart before the night ends. Read what is wanting in me and supply what is needed. When I am called to witness, give me wisdom and courage. By Your grace, let me endure faithfully until my days are complete. Amen.

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