25 Aug 2022
Thinking About Time
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For 25 August 2022, Thursday of week 21 in Ordinary Time, based on Matthew 24:42-51
Jesus said to his disciples: Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.
‘Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their allowance of food at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives. Truly I tell you, he will put that one in charge of all his possessions. But if that wicked slave says to himself, “My master is delayed”, and he begins to beat his fellow-slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards, the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know. He will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
25 August 2022 @ 10:56 pm
Marianne, thank you for being a distributor of “the sacrament”.
26 August 2022 @ 1:41 am
Thank you once again for your powerful reflection on the gospel today. I appreciate how you always integrate the gospel message with the circumstances of the hour that face us interiorly as well as exteriorly. Yet always give us hope to remain steadfast in our trust in Jesus to be with us.
God continue to bless your preaching.
Gratefully, Sr. Brigid, OP
26 August 2022 @ 5:24 am
Marianne – Thanks for the profound connection with the message of so-long-ago and our present historic moment, proving that “…the Word is ever-ancient, ever-new.”
26 August 2022 @ 1:45 pm
Marianne, your preaching reminds me to receive every moment as
sacrament – an encounter with God’s grace – and to be sure to pay attention so as not to miss it! Thank you!
27 August 2022 @ 12:26 am
Marianne, Thank you for your insightful preaching. Its strength, clarity and especially its
relevance to our contemporary lives prompts much thought and further reflection. I appreciate
that. Beth