Have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them

21 OCTOBER (Lk 12,35-38)

The man Christ Jesus wants on our earth must be a person always ready to leave for eternity. It is as if this man were to perpetually celebrate the Passover supper dressed for the journey, to leave the land of Egypt as soon the divine order reaches, instantly, without any delay, abandoning and forgetting everything. The man according to the Lord Jesus is by nature in exodus. He is more than a stranger, and much more than a pilgrim. The stranger dwells in a land not his own. The pilgrim walks from place to place. The Christian leaves everywhere, abandons the earth and heads for eternity. what is told in the Book of Exodus must be the style and manner of his being and of his acting. He is always expected by an eternal future not on earth.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall stand at the head of your calendar; you shall reckon it the first month of the year. Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every one of your families must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household. If a family is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join the nearest household in procuring one and shall share in the lamb in proportion to the number of persons who partake of it. The lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole assembly of Israel present, it shall be slaughtered during the evening twilight. They shall take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of every house in which they partake of the lamb. That same night they shall eat its roasted flesh with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. It shall not be eaten raw or boiled, but roasted whole, with its head and shanks and inner organs. None of it must be kept beyond the next morning; whatever is left over in the morning shall be burned up. “This is how you are to eat it: with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand, you shall eat like those who are in flight. It is the Passover of the Lord. For on this same night I will go through Egypt, striking down every first – born of the land, both man and beast, and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt-I, the Lord! But the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass over you; thus, when I strike the land of Egypt, no destructive blow will come upon you. “This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to the Lord, as a perpetual institution (Ex 12,1-14).

Jesus wants us always ready to be able to enter eternity. We must be ready for we do not choose the day, the hour and the moment. He decides it. He is the Lord of our life and He is the one who can call us at any moment. He does not call us directly. He always calls us in an indirect way. He calls us through our history which is always indecipherable, always mysterious, always arcane, always impossible to be understood. The daily chronicles put us before the mystery of death that owns every key to enter into our lives and rob it.

“Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them. And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants.

We must be ready not because we die. Death must not be feared for no reason at all. It comes and in a moment everything is consumed. From the earth one finds himself in eternity. What we have to fear is the judgment, which is of welcome in the kingdom of God or rejection, a turning away into the darkness of hell.

A truth that today is trampled, despised, denied, destroyed, erased from the believing minds is eternal damnation. By now, all preach the infinite and eternal mercy of God that excuses everything, forgives everything, forgets everything, welcomes all into his kingdom of light and life. This is the biggest lie ever preached on our God. Our God is the faithful one to his every word. He is the God of the just rewards. He is the Lord who gives every man according to his works. This truth must be restored in the hearts of all.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints give us this truth.