SATURDAY- LAST  WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME –A

I Reading: Apocalypse 22:1-7: It will never be night again, because the Lord will be shining on them.

Gospel: Luke 21:34-36: Stay awake, praying for the strength to survive all that is going to happen.

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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