25th Week of Ordinary Time C – Monday
In today’s readings, we hear of the founder of the Persian Empire, King Cyrus the Great, who reigned from the year 559 BC to 530 BC. We know that God used this pagan king in order to fulfil his will, allowing his people to return to the Promised Land. They had been exiled, for they had lost their way. They had sinned against the Lord their God, following other gods, worshipping idols—a profanation, a sacrilege in the eyes of the Lord.