Don Fabio’s homily for August 11th is now available on oursundaygospel.blogspot. Here is the Gospel for Sunday, followed by a summary of the homily. GOSPEL: Luke 12:32-48 Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them. And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way,blessed are those servants. 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, the master will put the servant 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.” THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD: Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ. Summary of homily . . . Jesus asks us to be constantly ready to encounter him in the most startling ways and at the most unexpected times. How do we behave when life springs its surprises on us? Are we thrown into confusion? Or do we accept the tribulations of life with serenity? What is the secret of being ready for what life throws at us? Jesus gives us the answer at the very beginning of the reading! He says, “Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.” Once we have founded our existence on the fact of being children of God, then we are placed in an ordered relationship with everything else in creation. Jesus speaks of the faithful and prudent servant who knows how to administer the goods that have been entrusted to him by the master. These two virtues have a definite order of priority. We must first of all be faithful to the Lord. We must found our existence on a relationship of intimacy with him. It is only then, once this relationship is in place, that we can have the prudence to administer the goods that the Lord entrusts to us. If we abandon ourselves to the Lord, then he abandons his goods into our hands to be distributed to others. Too often we take the opposite approach to the problems of life! We are confronted by a crisis and we try to do everything rational and prudent to resolve the problem. Later, when all else has failed, we beg the Lord for help! The correct approach is to live a life of daily attachment to the Lord, a life of complete abandonment to the will of God. When problems arise, entrust them to the Lord, and then tackle them with prudence, never losing trust in the providential care of God.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 12:12:39 +0000
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