Stay Awake – For you do not know on which day your Lord will come…You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come. Matthew 24:42, 44 Image Courtesy: Fr. John Lewis
Do not be afraid…for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor mouth destroy. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
Vigilant and Faithful Servants
“Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their masters return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table and proceed to wait on them and should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants. Be sure of this: If the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.”
Then Peter said, ‘Lord, is this parable meant for us or everyone?’
The Lord replied, “Who then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the master will put in charge of his servants to distribute (the) food allowance at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so. Truly, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property but if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming’ and begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, to eat, drink and get drunk, then 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 unfaithful. That servant who knew his master’s will but did not make preparations nor act in accord with his will shall be beaten severely and the servant who was ignorant of his masters will but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating shall be beaten only lightly. Much will be required of the person entrusted with much and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.
Jesus: A Cause of Division
I have come to set the earth on fire and how I wish it were already blazing. There is a baptism with which I must be baptized and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished.
Do you think I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you but rather division. Fro, now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three – a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law.”
Signs of the Times
Jesus said to the crowds, When you see (a) cloud rising in the west you say immediately that it is going to rain–so it does; when you notice that the wind is blowing from the south you say that it is going to be hot–so it is.
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, why do you not know how to interpret the present time? Luke 12:32-56
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