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Podcast: Catholic Daily Reflections
Episode: Thursday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time - Gentle Promptings of Grace
Description: βStay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.β Matthew 24:42β44Our Lord contrasts the call to stay awake with those who are asleep. Clearly, by stating βStay awake!β so emphatically, Jesus is also telling us that it is easy to fa...