Jesus said to His disciples: "Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master's return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them. And should he come in the second [10 PM to 2 AM] or third watch [2 AM to 6 AM] and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants."
The Gospel of the Lord.
You know neither the day nor the hour.
We are all students and servants of the Lord. As Christians who share in the fullness of revelation made known in Jesus Christ, we have a serious obligation to lead lives distinguished by love of God and love of neighbor.
There is an interesting twist: when the master returns and finds the servants awake, Jesus says, he will serve them, reversing the roles of master and servant. The Son of Man came, we remember, “to serve and not to be served” (Mt 20:28; Mark 10:45).
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