33rd Sunday of Ordinary

 

Like a Thief

Whenever a thief comes upon a person in a dark alley

In the movies,

They always say,

“Give me what you got!”

St Paul warned the Thessalonians,

That the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

And when He does He too is going to say,

“Give me what you got!”

In the Gospel,

Each servant was got a certain amount of talents.

One five, another two and a third one.

And when the master of the house came back

And said to the servants,

“Give me what you got!”

Two of them had increased their talents,

While a third had done nothing with his.

The Master rewarded the “good and faithful” servants,

But the “wicked and lazy” servant

Not only Lost what little he had been given,

But was thrown out into the darkness.

When the Lord returns,

He will come without warning,

Like a thief in the night,

And He will say to us;

“Give me what you got.”

At our Baptism the Lord gave us the gifts of Faith, Hope and Love.

Have we grown in our Faith?

Have we persevered in Hope?

Have we shared our Love?

What have we done with them?

Jesus does not care if we multiplied them,

Five times or two times as much.

What He does care about is that we didn’t waste them.

That we didn’t bury them in the ground.

It is not hard to multiply Faith, Hope and Love.

All we have to do is give them away!

And the more we give them away,

The more they will multiply in our own hearts.

And then we will not be empty handed when the Lord comes like a thief and says,

“Give me what you got?”

God Bless