Thursday of week 21 in Ordinary Time, 1

Memorial of St. Monica

Matthew 24:42-51


St. Paul commended the Thessalonians for being "blameless" as they grow in Christian maturity.

Jesus, in the gospel, warns about "being prepared because you don't know when the thief is coming."

Conversion in Christian life doesn't happen overnight.  We need to be prepared.

Spiritual preparation marks us for our lifetime as well as every moment.

Spiritual preparation include a clear destination and as well as daily growth in grace, always mindful that God is always at work in us.

Such is the zeal of St. Monica that caused the conversion of two persons in her life - her husband and her son Augustine, who eventually became the great saint of Africa.

Let us rue calling off spiritual preparations.  Let our lives reflect preparation on a day-to-day basis.

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