Gospel
text (Mathew 24,42-51): Jesus
said to his disciples, «Stay awake, then, for you do not know on what day your
Lord will come. Just think about this: if the owner of the house knew that the
thief would come by night around a certain hour, he would stay awake to prevent
his house to be broken into. So be alert, for the Son of Man will come at the
hour you least expect. Imagine a capable servant whom his master has put in
charge of his household to give them food at the proper time. Fortunate indeed
is that servant whom his master will find at work when he comes. Truly, I say
to you, his lord will entrust that one with everything he has. Not so with the
bad servant who thinks: ‘My master is delayed’. And he begins ill-treating his
fellow servants while eating and drinking with drunkards. But his master will
come on the day he does not know and at the hour he least expects. He will
dismiss that servant and deal with him as with the hypocrites, where there will
be weeping and gnashing of teeth».
Our God is all love and truth, who asks from us humility and forgiveness. Our God is the only living God. He has the word of eternal life. Observing the process of the current protests in the Middle East and many other places in the world by the so called followers of Islam, presumably outraged because they do not like what is being presented in a film about their prophet; it is interesting to distinguish that factual truth, about what is missing in the whole staging of these protests and it is precisely, truth, love, humility and forgiveness and it is not precisely from the ignorant mobs perpetrating the assaults under the direction of their evil leaders, but from the ones supposedly protecting the basic and fundamental freedoms we all in the western civilization which is founded in Christianity, have for granted.
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