Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Awaiting

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 11.27.21 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Luke 21:34-36

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus urges us to watch and pray as we await his coming again. In one sense, Christianity is a religion of fulfillment (the Lord has come), but in another sense, it is a religion of waiting, for we expect the Second Coming of Jesus in the fullness of his power.

We wait and watch and keep vigil. And this is difficult. But what we all know is that great things take time. For example, when a woman becomes pregnant, she has to wait nine long months before the baby is ready.

“How long does this analysis take?” a woman once asked Carl Jung. “Just as long as it takes,” came the answer. Gestation, growth, healing—during any of these processes, the very worst thing one can do is to pick at it, to force it, to make it operate according to our private timetables.

That’s why Jesus calls us to “be vigilant at all times and pray that you have the strength . . . to stand before the Son of Man.”

[MurphsLaw]

+++Jesus said to his disciples:
“Beware that your hearts do not
become drowsy
from carousing and drunkenness
and the anxieties of daily life,
and that day catch you by surprise
like a trap.
For that day will assault everyone
who lives on the face of the earth.
Be vigilant at all times
and pray that you have the strength
to escape the tribulations that are
imminent
and to stand before the Son of
Man.”+++