Tuesday 24 October 2023

Today is Tuesday 24 October, in the 29th week of Ordinary time.

Juliano Ravanello sings Hino Cristológico:
Jesus Christ is The Lord
For the Glory of God the Father
Our Lord Jesus Christ
Of divine nature
Did not demand to be treated
in the quality of God
But he stripped himself
Taking the form of a servant.
How does this image of Jesus shape you today?

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Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke.

Luke 12:35-38

‘Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, blessed are those servants.

There is one central image in this reading: servants awaiting the late return of their master. Who do you find it easiest to identify yourself with here? The patient servants? The late-arriving master? What most strikes you when you take up one of these viewpoints.

The parable promises a role-reversal for the watchful servants. Just for once, their master will wait on them. What would that be like, for the servants and for the master?

As you listen again, notice what these lines have to say about ways in which you live your own life at present.

Ask God to show you what he would like you to take away from this time of prayer, and notice God’s response.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.