By Rev. Joe McCloskey, SJ
Your people awaited
the salvation of the just and the destruction of their foes. For when you punished our adversaries, in
this you glorified us whom you had summoned. Wisdom 18:7-8
Faith is the
realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1
“Much will be required
of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the
person entrusted with more.” Luke
12:48c
Piety
Our piety is seen in our preparation for the coming of the
Lord. God comes to us in unexpected ways. Our readiness for the coming of the Lord is
the essence of our piety. Our God of
love gives us himself in each now moment of our lives. Piety is how we accept the love of the Lord. He does not force his love on us. He gives us moment by moment the max of his
love for us in the realty of our lives. His
love holds us in existence. The only
limit of God’s love for us is in how much of his love we welcome into our lives. Naked we came into this world and naked we
will go out with the one exception of the good we have done that is waiting for
us as our credentials of heavenly citizenship.
Our claim to fame in heaven will be what we have done in the name of the
Lord.
Study
Our faith is the realization of what we are hoping for. We study the lives of the saints to discover
what God is looking for in us. Our faith
is seen in our confidence in the good people that have gone before us that we
want to follow. The heroic of their
lives is seen in the way they do the ordinary of their lives in a loving way. They put their hearts and their souls into
what they are doing for the Lord. Our
faith is put to the test in the difficult moments of our lives when we perhaps
do not feel like doing the right thing and do it anyway because that is how we
love the Lord for himself. The good we
do provides money bags for ourselves in the treasure that is waiting for us in
heaven.
Action
We provide money bags for ourselves in heaven by the way we
take care of the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, the prisoners and the sick. What we do for the least person in our lives
is what we do for Christ. Our lives
reach a cosmic scope when we reach out to the least person of our lives in the
name of Christ. Love is the only limit
on any action of our lives. How much of
ourselves we give to the Lord is measured by how much of ourselves we offer to
those who need our help right now. If we
take care of the needs of this hour we give Christ who we are.
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