33rd Sunday in OT (A) “You are children of the light…” Happy Sunday everyone! Let us follow the flow of our Readings. We are two Sundays away from closing this liturgical year. Next Sunday is the Solemnity of Christ the King, the “summit Sunday.” As we move towards the culmination, we are reminded of who and what we should be again before our God. 1. We should be “good wives” to God who himself is to us. The First Reading then is a description of who/what God is to us. He is beyond our best desires but he is for us, that, to him we ought to pledge our very being. He does nothing but to satisfy our longing; he supplies our needs and makes us confident of what lies ahead. Truly, this is God to us. And we are called to be to him as well. Offer him nothing but good, do nothing for him (to our neighbor) but good that we may, one way or another be an answer to their prayers. Christian life indeed is marriage life with God. We can never take ourselves from God and him from us. We are eternally bound to be with him (as all marriages should be). It’s not a relationship of “complementariness” but that of true intimacy: communion. 2. We are to him that we are excited for his coming/return. We will not be surprised if he comes in the middle of the night, for there is not night as bright as day for him/her who waits for the beloved. One does not sleep. That is, s/he stays away from darkness, succumbing not to sin. He/she remains awake, alert and active in making the household of God a better place to live. He is alert of the presence of anything that may “weaken his marriage with God.” One is alert in finding and resisting any signs of divisiveness and misgivings among members of the Church (and humanity at large). 3. But the King is coming (Advent)…and he will ask for an accounting of the “talents, graces, gifts” he has entrusted to us. He will ask: how are you? How did you fare during my absence? Because we are for him, he expects a joyful/excited accounting of the life we lived. He should, for he is not remiss in filling-up our needs (or we are at least expected to fill up the neediness of the other). What were given were talents. They are the “riches” of the king, precious and needed by the subjects of his kingdom. They are given to help keep the kingdom going despite his absence. Ah, even without him, where there are “talented” servants – the kingdom should still feel “heavenly” for the administration of goods and services continues. No one will go hungry when talents are spent; no one will be unjustly treated when talents are invested; no one will feel “out of place, unwanted” when talents are shared. Some sure will be happy to report what great ministry they have had…how many they have inspired and strengthened; how many they have helped in seeing the face of Christ.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 14:25:22 +0000
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