Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - The Master's Will

Memorial of Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs

Luke 12:39–48 Friends, in today’s Gospel,
the Lord urges his disciples and us to be prudent servants, following his ways in anticipation of his coming again.
Theologians often call prudence the queen of the virtues because it is the capacity to reign sovereignly over one’s life,
both ordering one’s inner powers and directing one’s affairs wisely in the outside world.

Prudence is that sure touch, that moral instinct that renders one capable of making the right decision under pressure
and in the face of complex circumstances.
Prudence is a sort of accumulated theoretical and practical wisdom, a know-how that is for the most part instinctual,
in the bones.

When placed in the Christian context, therefore, prudence is a feel for how Jesus would react,
how he would think, how he would move in a particular situation.
It is tantamount to having one’s soul gathered around Christ as its center,
so that all one’s actions are informed by Jesus and his way of being in the world.
Christian prudence comes from apprenticing to Christ—that is to say,
moving with him,
watching at close quarters how he lives and moves and gestures.

+++Jesus said to his disciples:
“Be sure of this:
if the master of the house had known the hour
when the thief was coming,
he would not have let his house be broken into.
You also must be prepared,
for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.”

Then Peter said,
“Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?”
And the Lord replied,
“Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward
whom the master will put in charge of his servants
to distribute the food allowance at the proper time?
Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so.
Truly, I say to you, he will put him
in charge of all his property.
But if that servant says to himself,
‘My master is delayed in coming,’
and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants,
to eat and drink and get drunk,
then that servant’s master will come
on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour
and will punish the servant severely
and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
That servant who knew his master’s will
but did not make preparations
nor act in accord with his will
shall be beaten severely;
and the servant who was ignorant of his master’s will
but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating
shall be beaten only lightly.
Much will be required of the person entrusted with much,
and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.”+++

Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs

The above saints all died because they knew and preached that Jesus Christ was the only way to salvation.

Unlike the hypocrite, Boobie, who assured the Jew, Ben Shapiro, that Christ was only "the privileged route" to salvation.

Is Jesus Christ the ‘privileged way’ to salvation—or the only way?

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