Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.(Matthew 24:42-44 NABRE)
In today's verse, Jesus warns his disciples that the exact time of his return, at the end of all things, is known only to the Father. He goes on to warn them to be always ready for it.* The theme of vigilance and readiness is continued with the bold comparison of the return of the Son of Man to a thief who comes to break into a house.*
So much time has passed, we may have lost our sense of urgency. The disciples would certainly have expected Jesus to return to them during their lifetimes, after all, why else would he have called them to such vigilance? And yet, we still wait for him today. Can we stay awake and prepared?
Today, I will renew my sense of vigilance and readiness as I await the return of my Savior.
Saint Cajetan, who founded a congregation known as the Theatines which was outstanding among the Catholic reform movements that took shape before the Protestant Reformation, pray for us.
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