Oh how easy it is for us to be distracted by the world. So many advertisements and in so many forms showing us what we are missing, what we need, why we need it even how we are to dress, what we need to eat and what holiday we must have! It is far easier to fall asleep and give in to our many fantasies even sexual ones.
But You O Lord have shown me the error of my ways. You have liberated me and given me new life in You. I am truly more alive now then I have ever been. All I will ever need or want, I have in You. I have great joy in serving You and my brethen, one that cannot be bought or found other than in You. Has it always been easy and smooth sailing? No.Was there suffering and hardship? Yes. And I gladly carry the cross that I have to bear; for You have been faithfully by my side and Your peace is always upon me.
Lord let me always be awake in and for You. Amen
FIRST READING
1 Corinthians 1:1–9
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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