Greetings on this the Saturday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Readings: Daniel 7:15-27; Daniel 3:82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87; Luke 21:34-36
Summary
The Liturgical Year comes to a close today.
As we prepare to enter Advent, Jesus Himself gives us the perfect End-of-Year advice.
Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise (Lk 21:34).
A few simple points:
- Heart = the object of your affection (your affect, what moves you).
- Drowsy = to be apathetic or listless in believing in the divine love or acting in concert with the divine love.
- Carousing (loud, noisy, busy) and drunkenness (filled to excess).
- Concerns being the anxieties of daily life.
A two two sentence reminder of Jesus’ End of Year Advice:
- Don’t let these things control you: a loud noisy/busy life, following every whim/desire to excess, not to mention, the 100 things that can make us anxious.
- Let not apathy toward God and the listlessness in obeying God be true, instead, make the object of my attention be love.
Now let us go stand before the Son of Man. Give glory and eternal praise to him.
Sacred Readings full text: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112925.cfm
Peace be with you,
Deacon Gerry