Saturday – 17th Week of Ordinary Time B
In today’s readings we reflect on the profound and often painful theme of the death of the prophets—those courageous individuals called by God to speak truth to power, to uplift the oppressed, and to challenge the comfortable. In our readings, we witness the lives and fates of three significant figures: Jeremiah, John the Baptist, and our Lord Jesus Christ himself as the culmination of all the prophets. Each of them faced persecution, rejection, and ultimately death because they dared to proclaim God’s message in a world often resistant to His truth.