Wednesday, November 20, 2013. 

Today's Liturgical Reading by Daily Flash, Goa.  

2 Maccabees 7:1, 20-31; Psalm 16[17]:1, 5-6, 8, 15; Gospel : Luke 19:11-28. [Please share today's Gospel with family, friends/neighbors.]

Focus:  “…until I come back” (Luke 19:13)

We know by faith that God became man, but how much do we understand of the Incarnation, the Ascension, or the Second Coming? We cannot comprehend how someone complete and eternal could fully live our life, restricted by time and place, among other things. Neither could those around Jesus. So He spoke in parables involving place – “a distant country” (Luke 19:12) – and time – “until I come back” (Focus).

Jesus did not leave us orphans although, in the Ascension, He “went to a distant country to get royal power” (Luke 19:12). He lives with us and yet He will come back. Like the slaves in today’s Gospel, we know that we have limited time within which to prove our worth. It is not our concern when our day of reckoning will come. We daily need to do our best and to acknowledge that we owe all to God. Our life itself, our talents, resources and opportunities are the ‘pound’ God gave us to trade with. As the heroic mother says in the First Reading, “It was not I who gave you life and breath” (2 Maccabees 7:22).

It is easy to see the third slave’s attitude (Luke 19:20-21) for what it is: ugly. When we refuse to be fruitful in good works just because another will reap, do we recognize the ugliness of the same attitude?

Fruit:  When the Lord comes, can I truly say, ‘I shall behold Your face in righteousness’ (Psalm 16[17]:15)?

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