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Gospel: Matthew 24:42-51
(Jesus
said to his disciples) “Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord
will come. Be sure
of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief
was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So
too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of
Man will come. “Who, then, is the faithful and prudent servant, whom the master
has put in charge of his household to distribute to them their food at the
proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master on his arrival finds doing
so. Amen, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property. But if
that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is long delayed,’ and begins to
beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with drunkards, the servant’s
master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish
him severely and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be
wailing and grinding of teeth.”
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Reflection:
What are
we going to do if we’re assigned a responsibility? We will do whatever it takes
to properly accomplish the responsibility immediately. There will be no dilly dally we will
immediately do what we have to do because this is the responsibility given to
us.
In our
gospel for today Jesus tells the disciples: Be prepared for the son of man will
come at an hour you do not expect. What kind of preparation did Jesus wants from
His disciples? Of course it is to live their lives the way Jesus lived His
life, this they could achieve through their humility, their concern for the
poor and by living their lives in the service of others.
How
should we prepare for the coming of Jesus? Should we prepare by making
ourselves busy on how to increase our material wealth? Of course not! The preparation
that Jesus speaks about is the same preparation that He required from His disciples.
So that when He knocks we would be able to let Him enter our lives.
Therefore,
we must not always busy ourselves on how to increase our wealth. For material
wealth is not the be all and end all of life. The best preparation for the coming of Jesus
into our lives is to create time for Him no matter how busy we are for this is
the only way we could prepare for His coming.
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