32nd Sunday- A
Good evening/morning every one, when the weather is good, sunny and bright, people always tell me, "This is your kind of weather". Now the weather is cold, dark and going to be snowing and I can tell that this is your kind of weather.
Once a little boy sitting in a tall and big tree, refused to come down and the parents tried their best and they couldn't do anything. The police and the fire fighter came and they couldn’t do anything either. Then they said, "why can't we call our new priest and let us see what he could do". The priest came and looked at the boy and made a sign of the cross and the boy right away came down from the tree. Everybody clapped hands for him and then a man looked at the priest and said, "Father, you have miracle power and with a sign of the cross, you brought the boy down". The priest said, "No, I didn't make a sign of the cross. All I did was I just talked to the boy in sign language saying, "If you don't come down, I will cut down the tree..."
There is a beautiful story about St. Thomas Aquinas the famous theologian and writer. By his writings, he added so much beauty to the Catholic Church. Once he supposed to finish writing a book but he didn't. So, his assistant came to him saying, "Father, how come you didn’t finish the book? You know what he said, "St. Thomas said, "It's because a week ago, as I was praying, I had a glimpse of the glory of Christ. Comparing to that glimpse of glory, all my writings and preaching are just a big waste"
In today's gospel, we see how Christ our Lord is compared to a bridegroom. He is not compared to a husband or a father but to a bridegroom. The Bible says that for this reason the man leaves his father and mother and be united to his wife and the two will become one flesh. Christ wants to have a deeper intimacy with his creatures and thus help us to experience the unconditional love of God. He is the vine and we are His branches and without Him, we cannot do anything.
And Christ the bridegroom is coming in an unexpected time and we who are His faithful, asked to be ready to welcome Him.
Yes, as faithful, we were baptized into His Holy Catholic Church and every time we enter into Church we touch the holy water and bless ourselves as reminder of our baptismal promises and to know how much Christ loves us. The sacrament of reconciliation helps us to know the unlimited forgiveness of Christ our Lord and the Holy Eucharist says that we are not alone but Christ who gives His body and blood is with us until the end of time and all other sacraments help us to be with Christ our Lord. We the faithful like the ten virgins in today's gospel are asked to be ready to welcome the bridegroom with our words and actions.
Though the ten were waiting for the groom, only five were ready. They had the flask of oil. Yes, we faithful are asked to have faith and put that faith into practice every day.
Once a group of people came to the priest saying, "We don't have enough water in our community. The drought is killing us and why can't you arrange a prayer service for rain. The priest agreed and on the day of prayer service, the church was filled with people and at the proper time, the priest came out and looked at the people and said, "Since you don't have faith, there will be no prayer service for rain". The people were shocked and looked at the said, "look at us. We left our jobs and didn't send our children to school and we postponed our different appointments in order to come to this service and you say that we don't have faith. Then the priest looked at them all and said, "We are here to pray for rain and not even a single one of you brought an umbrella with you'
The Lord is coming in an unexpected time. Let us deepen our faith in Him. Yes, when we pray for rain, let us have our umbrella with us. Amen.
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