HE WILL GIRD HIMSELF

Eph 2,12-22; Ps 84; Lk 12,35-38
23 OCTOBER

Jesus sees the Christian as if his life on earth was a perennial celebration of Easter. On the night of liberation the children of Israel had to eat the lamb. They ate it standing up, in travel suits, ready to leave everything on the table as soon as the Lord had given the order to leave the land of slavery. The yeast, which is a sign of waiting, was taken out of the houses. When the Lord passes, one must immediately leave everything and go on a journey. The hour is established only by God.

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 (Ex 12,3-13).

Nobody thinks and perhaps does not even know that our Eucharist is celebrated with unleavened bread. We do not have time to linger in the things of this world. We must be ready. Always in travel suit. When the Lord comes, we must be ready to go with him to his eternal sky. If He comes and finds us not ready, He might not take us with Him to his paradise. This truth no longer exists today. It is considered a remnant of a way of seeing things that is by now well out of date. Against all revelation, without any reference to it anymore, the disciples of Jesus became champions of a new preaching. In sharp contrast, in contradiction, in denial of the Gospel and of every other Word of God, they cry out to the whole world that there will be no judgment of God. There is no hell. All will be embraced by the Father’s mercy and led into his eternal kingdom. Thus, it becomes useless to stay with the clothes tight at the sides and the lights on. Whether one is asleep or awake, whether good or bad, believer or unbeliever, whether Christian or non-Christian, faithful or unfaithful to the Gospel, it is of no use. All will be welcomed in the light of God.

“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.

Knowing this, Jesus warned us. He told us to be careful not to be overwhelmed by the false prophecy. But what is false prophecy and how can we recognize it? Every word that contradicts the Word of Jesus in little or a lot is false prophecy. False prophets are all those who say that there is no judgment of God, there is no hell and no need to believe in Christ to be saved. False prophets are all those who deny obedience to the Gospel as the one and only way of true salvation on earth and in the heavens. It would be enough to tell all the false prophets: “Christ does not think like you. His Gospel does not speak as you speak. I am on the side of the Gospel “.

Virgin Most Pure, Angels and Saints, help us to be always with Jesus and with his Word.