Today's Gospel

Get Ready for Eternity

Welcome back to Radical & Relevant, where each day we're looking for a word, a phrase, or an idea that jumps out at you from the gospel so that you can connect that teaching to your day. A reading today is from Gospel of Luke 12:35-38. "Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table. And he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch or in the third and finds them so, blessed are those servants." The reading today is about watchfulness. It's about preparedness. We prepare for everything we consider to be important. We don't prepare for things. We don't consider them to be important. Doesn't mean they're not important. We don't consider them to be important enough to prepare for. And so, one of the things that's gone away is like serious preparation for mass, right? Getting there a few minutes early. Getting your heart, your mind, your soul in a place where you can receive God in all the ways he wants to feed you during that mass.

I always like to read the gospel for Sunday on the, you know, the Wednesday or the Thursday before. Something about that sort of focuses me in and subconsciously maybe even just preparing through the week. And then when the priest or the deacon reads the gospel on Sunday, it's familiar and focused in. So it's about preparedness and ultimately preparedness for heaven, for the eternal life, for when God does call us. And that's a theme we're seeing here in these readings. The theme that this life, it's amazing, it's beautiful. But it's sort of brief and eternity is a long time and we're just passing through here. We are pilgrims. And sometimes we act as if we're going to be here forever. And Jesus is counseling us strongly not to get into that mindset. Have a great day and remember, Be Bold, Be Catholic.