Reading the Signs of the Times

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Fr. Peter Calabrese is a Barnabite priest. The full name of the Barnabites is "The Clerics Regular of St. Paul." Fr. Calabrese serves at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Lewiston, N.Y.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came and, to test him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. He said to them in reply, "In the evening you say, 'Tomorrow will be fair, for the sky is red'; and, in the morning, 'Today will be stormy, for the sky is red and threatening.' You know how to judge the appearance of the sky, but you cannot judge the signs of the times. An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah." Then he left them and went away. (Mt 16:1-4)