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On this Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear Jesus telling his disciples:
“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. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come” (Luke 12: 35-40).
So how do stay ready for the Lord? There are many ways to do this. First, we should chat with the Lord each day; that is called prayer. Prayer can be very simple. For example, some of my favorite prayers are: “Help!” and “Thanks!” Second, we can live our vocation as the best we can. And third, we can follow Christ’s commandments such as: love our neighbors as we love ourselves; forgive our enemies; give to those who ask; care for the sick; visit the imprisoned; console the sorrowful; and the like. Those are some very concrete ways to “be prepared.”
