Where Lord – Luke 17:26-37 Reflection
Today’s reading has an intensely spiritual message. When you look around, do you delight in the beauty surrounding you? Are you loving your friends and family? Do you care for the unexpected neighbor that may enter your life? Is there a feeling of satisfaction with your nominal needs? Are you opening your heart to reveal Jesus to others in your unique way? Is Trinity’s radiance embracing you, and do you embrace back? Do you take time to allow the mysteries within scripture to be understood? Is your prayer life consistent and fulfilling? If so, you are ready for whatever is in front of you. These signs are indications that you have lost your life of being selfish and gained being selfless. You know the answer to “Where Lord” is in your heart and soul and not in your accumulations. During this waiting period to enter heaven fully, our duty to God in this life is to offer ourselves to be working members of the body of Christ. We can quietly transform to accept virtues and fearlessly cooperate with divinity as we traverse our eternal faith journey.
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Additional Ordinary Time Reflections
Luke 17:26-37 – Scripture*
26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They were eating and drinking, and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them. 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed all of them 30 —it will be like that on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day, anyone on the housetop who has belongings in the house must not come down to take them away; and likewise anyone in the field must not turn back. 32 Remember Lot’s wife. 33 Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it. 34 I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. 35 There will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken and the other left.” 37 Then they asked him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”
Additional Thoughts
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Prayer for young families:
Lord, let the young families of our communities get to know your joy, peace, comfort, and love despite worldly distractions.
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