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We live in a high paced world where technological advancements rage on to make our lives easier and more comfortable. We pride ourselves on our achievements on using the resources and our resourcefulness to create historical breakthroughs. Have we forgotten God? His loving hand in all things? The gifts and talents we received from Him?

Left to our own device how easy it is to choose wrong from right. After all we decide on our own what is good and what is evil. And unless we turn back to God our loving Father, our choice of living will be our very own destruction.

Let us strive always to turn away from sin; stay focused on Christ looking ahead, to be faithful to His Word and to do God’s Will for us. Amen.

FIRST READING
Wisdom 13:1–9

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.”

Knowledge of God through the Holy Spirit is what drives us forward each grace filled day in His Kingdom here on earth.

Though sickness, trials and persecutions may befall us, we carry our cross bravely, for our hope is in Christ. His light flashes brightly and mightily across dark skies.

And when we pass from this earth we have joyous hope that we will walk with our Lord in paradise. Amen

FIRST READING
Wisdom 7:22b–8:1

GOSPEL
Luke 17:20–25

Asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus said in reply, “The coming of the Kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, ‘Look, here it is,’ or, ‘There it is.’ For behold, the Kingdom of God is among you.”

Then he said to his disciples, “The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. There will be those who will say to you, ‘Look, there he is,’ or ‘Look, here he is.’ Do not go off, do not run in pursuit. For just as lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. But first he must suffer greatly and be rejected by this generation.”