SATURDAY- LAST WEEK IN
ORDINARY TIME –C
Gospel: Luke 21:34-36: Stay awake, praying for the strength to survive all that is
going to happen.
I Reading: Daniel 7:15-27: Sovereignty and kingship will be given to the people of the
saints of the Most High.
The Warning: Watch and Pray for the Day of Jesus’ Return, 21:34-36
The
world is to going to suffer and will experience disasters and calamities due to
lack of faith in God, injustice, corruption, violence, inequality, oppression
etc.; therefore the believers must watch and pray always.
1.
It demands taking care (v.34-35)
a.
By not engaging in worldliness
1) partying and drunkenness
2) anxieties of life
b.
Reason: Lest the believer be caught unaware-snared-trapped
2.
It demands watching and praying always (v.36)
a.
To be counted worthy
b.
To escape the things coming to earth
c.
To stand justified
Thought: The believer to be careful,
to guard him/herself against these things because the day of the Lord’s return,
can catch him unexpectedly and unprepared. (Mt 24:38-39; Eccl 9:12)
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