+ Our readings today correspond with one another in a
subtle sense: in the first reading St. Paul writes to
the Corinthians reaffirming the great spiritual gifts that they have received
for accepting membership into the Body of Christ, the Church, telling them that
they now lack no spiritual gift necessary
for salvation; he then encourages them to
stand firm to the end, irreproachable, as they wait for the Day of the Lord;
the gospel passage speaks of
attentiveness and remaining vigilant for that coming day of the Lord – of which
no one knows the exact day nor hour;
therefore live like it could be at any
time at all, then your house will be in order when at last he does come – and
you will escape punishment; and there will be punishment for those who –
having been given countless opportunities at being consummately ready – are not
thus prepared: the wailing and grinding
of teeth will be real, though in a spiritually corporeal sense.
May we today live like God is
a very welcome and happy part of our lives, or actually the other way around,
we ought to live like we are a grateful and joyful part of his life – then we will be ready whenever the final moment arrives
and we will welcome it with peace and saintly resignation!
Stay
awake! For you do not know when the Son of Man will come.
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