Gospel: Luke
17:26-37
Jesus
said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the
days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in
marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed
them all. Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking,
buying, selling, planting, building; on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and
brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all. So it will be on the day the
Son of Man is revealed. On that day, someone who is on the housetop and whose
belongings are in the house must not go down to get them, and likewise one in
the field must not return to what was left behind. Remember the wife of Lot.
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save
it. I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be
taken, the other left. And there will be two women grinding meal together; one
will be taken, the other left.” They
said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there
also the vultures will gather.
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Reflection:
Why does the
church perpetually call us to leave behind our sinfulness? For example, the
church since time immemorial had been tirelessly advising us to live a life
worthy in the eyes of the Lord. For what reason is this call of the church?
This is
to prepare us for the coming judgment day which unfortunately we don’t know
when it will be. Therefore, the sooner we respond to this call of repentance
the better for it would save us from unspeakable punishment.
The
people during the time of Noah and Lot were preoccupied with immoral and
worldly things; perhaps this was the reason why without any warning came the
catastrophe. Why did it happen? It happened because they were very much
preoccupied with the things that would satisfy their lust, their greed and
their love to commit sin.
We never
learn from these incidents because up to this very moment some of us continue
to crave to commit immorality. Some of us are still very greedy we have no
satisfaction and we continue to amass corrupted wealth. We continue to commit sin; we continue to
harbor the devil in our midst.
We better
stop these sinful actions and repent before it completely destroys us. – Marino
J. Dasmarinas
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