Christ will Come!

 

25th week Friday in Ordinary Time

Year One

Hag 2:1-9

Christ will Come!

Encouragement in the Face of Discouragement: The older generation remembered Solomon’s temple and felt the new temple paled in comparison. God acknowledges this discouragement but urges them to continue. "Be strong… for I am with you": Repeated three times this is central to God's message. It mirrors encouragements from earlier in Israel’s history (like Joshua 1).

God’s Promise of His Presence: God reminds them of the covenant and that His Spirit is still among them a powerful reassurance. Prophetic Vision of Glory and Peace: God promises that the “latter glory” of the temple will surpass the former. This has both immediate and future (messianic) implications.

Do we believe that in coming of Christ and the final peace of God's kingdom?       

Year Two

Eccl 3:1-11

We are Made for Eternity!

There is a time to be born and a time to die. There is a time to plant and a time to uproot. There is a time to cry and a time to laugh. There is a time to mourn and a time to dance. There is a time to hate and a time to love. There is a time to be silent and a time to speak. Time for war and a time for peace. Everything will be good and wonderful in God’s time.

We notice there is a burden in the human heart. God indeed made everything beautiful in his time. The time of the Lord is beautiful. Every day is beautiful and wonderful. Time and space are for eternity. So, we too are made for eternity. Eternity is set in the human heart. The human being is not able to understand the depth of God’s love from the beginning to the end.

Do we trust that ,we are made for eternity?

Lk 9:18-22

Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection!

He sternly ordered and commanded them not to tell anyone, saying, “The Son of Man must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes and be killed and on the third day be raised.” (Lk 9:21-22).

Jesus is aware of the death he was to undergo. He was speaking about his death because he was afraid of it and taking support and consolation from his disciples. The disciples and the crowds were not taking it seriously, as we take most of our people who are near and dear to us not seriously when they speak about their death and the end. Only when they are dead, do we recall what they have said and done in a coherent way. 

Jesus says that he would be rejected by the elders of the time and would be put to death. Jesus does not say that death is the end of his life but he says that He will rise again on the third day.  In death, there is life, and that too,, Everlasting Life. The suffering and death of Jesus lead us to Eternal Life the Resurrection.

Do I believe that suffering, pain and death follow Joy and Life?

Fr Putti Anthaiah sdb

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