Inspirations at your Fingertips!

Thursday of week 34 in Ordinary Time Luke 21:20-28  We are interested in endings.  What makes a meaningful story?  The ending Mankind's history may may have started with creation, it may have been tainted with sin and destruction, and we may be suffering due to the effects of sin.  But notice the ending: Jesus will come.  In the first reading, Daniel was spared from the attacks of the lions while his enemies were eaten.  Good will triumph over evil, and God will emerge triumphant. In the Creed, we believe in the end of life which is life everlasting.  What does this mean? First, we believe in the Beatific vision: we shall see God face-to-face for all eternity. Second, we will receive the crown of everlasting life.  That everlasting life may be eternity in heaven or hell.  We rely totally on God for our salvation. Third, we will have a new heaven and a new earth; and death will have no power over us for all eternity. It is Go...

The end times Luke 17:26-37 The gospel refers to the end times when people would not recognize the coming of the Lord while they continue eating and drinking. It also goes true with the first reading: foolish people will fail to recognize the presence of the Lord, exulting science and dynamics of the world but not attributing them to God. But our God is a talking God in constant communication with us.  He is not a deity or a symbol.  He is alive and happy are the people who in the normal course of life can detect God's promptings. The end times are marked by our capacity to be sensitive to the presence of Lord.  We need God's grace to detect this.  Our lives also should be oriented to God even when we were born.  We also need to commit ourselves to seeing the Lord in our daily lives and work towards our end goal of being with Him for all eternity.

The end times Reading:  Luke 17:26-37 This does not apply only to businesses or companies that we should begin with the end in mind, but on life itself. Just what is our end?  Jesus and Jesus alone.  If he is our end, then we should try our best to align all our actions and orientations to him and what he wills.  He wills us to have life, that is why he gave us this command, "Love one another." He wills that every moment, he may find us loving and serving one another and not ourselves.