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:
There’s a story of a woman who transferred to her
newly built house. In her two years stay in the said house she had it blessed
three times already. And her reason was she always had a feeling that something
eerie was going to happen to her in that house. When she was asked if she
always has time for God she said that she doesn’t have.
What does it mean to stay awake? It means to always
be ready for whatever that may come into our life. We have to be reminded that life
is so full of surprises that we cannot predict what may happen to us in the
next seconds and minutes.
Earthly preparation is always prudent but nothing
beats being prepared spiritually. For spiritual preparation is the best
preparation that we could ever do. Whatever that may hit us if we are
spiritually prepared we are very sure that we would rise up again. For the
simple reason that we are connected with God and who could bring us down if we
have God? Nobody!
Let us therefore always be prepared by having a
special bond with Jesus. We can begin by reading about His life in the bible.
And my making ourselves available for Holy Mass most especially during Sunday.
Are you always prepared? – Marino J.
Dasmarinas
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