Good morning everyone, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Dear friends, every time we come to Church, we prepare ourselves to meet the Lord God, and we prepare ourselves for the last day-the judgment day. Every time we come to church, we celebrate the second coming of Christ our Lord.
One day a catholic church was completly burned down and the priest didn't have a place to say Mass, the local bar owner said, "father you can use my bar on sundays to say Mass and the priest said, "I heard you have a parrot in the bar that uses bad language". The owner said, 'no, my parrot is a good catholic one and it does not use bad language at all". so the priest made necessary arragements to use the bar to say mass on sundays. when the priest went in the bar, the parrot looked at him and said, 'wow.. we have a new bartender". when the altar servers went in, the parrot said, 'we have new waiteress" and when the parishioners went in for the Mass, the parrot looked at them and said, 'Wow... same old customers".
Today’s gospel reading invites us to think about the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ our Lord promised that He would come back the way He was taken up to heaven. Every time we acclaim the mystery of faith, we say that Christ has died, He has risen and He will come again. Yes, Christ is coming back to take us with Him so that where He our Master is there we may also be.
The great emperor Alexander had three death wishes. He wanted his coffin being carried by physicians or doctors to show to the world that no one can stop death not even physicians. He wanted gold, silver and precious stones being thrown before his coffin till his graveyard to let the world know that nothing is precious but only what we do for others. He finally wanted his hands dangling from the coffin to show the world that he came into the world empty handed and he is going back empty handed. Nothing is permanent. Life becomes meaningless without Christ. Everything comes from God and ends in God alone and that is why Christ our Lord says when He comes again, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give light and the stars from the sky will be falling and the heavens will be shaken. Yes, before Christ the light of the world, everything will lose its power. They all bow before His holy name.
The second coming of Christ invites us to prepare ourselves to meet the Lord God and thus be with Him forever celebrating life everlasting.
The second coming of Christ is called the judgment day. On the day, he will send out His angels to gather His elects from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. Yes, He is coming to judge His people and give them eternal life.
One day a man went to a spiritual Master and said, “Master, teach me the secret of the coming of the Son of Man”
The master said, “Go and sit still within your cell, the cell will teach you the secret of the second coming of the son of Man”
The man said, “but I do not have a cell and I am not a monk”
Then the master said, “of course you have a cell, look within”
Yes, the secret of the second coming of Christ our Lord is given to us all and all we have to do is just to know how to be with the Lord and pray continually. Yes. Christ promises that the chosen people will not pass away until all He promised have taken place.
There will be many signs happening around the world regarding the second coming of Christ our Lord. And people who are with the Lord and who continue to prepares themselves will know how to interpret those sings and thus prepare to meet the Lord. And in today’s gospel, Jesus says, ‘look at the fig tress, as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know the summer is coming or near. So also, when you see things happening, you should prepare yourselves to celebrate the coming of Christ our Lord.
Conclusion:
As He promised, The Lord is coming
with His angels and archangels to judge us. And His judgment will open the gates of
paradise for us who believe in Him.
And the forth one is about eternal punishment or hell, and we who were baptized into the
holy catholic church and we who put our faith into practice, need not to be afraid of
eternal punishment because our home is paradise and we are called to enter into life
everlasting one day and until then let us continue our spiritual journey with hope. Yes,
HOPE is a good thing and it is the best of all things. Amen.
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