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Home Mark 13:33-37 NRSVue

Mark 13:33-37 NRSVue

33Beware, keep alert, for you do not know when the time will come. 34It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his slaves in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch. 35Therefore, keep awake, for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening or at midnight or at cockcrow or at dawn, 36or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly. 37And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.”

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)

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Some thoughts on this scripture

Reflection
Jesus' message and life was to make a difference and save the world. That's the call - to do the world a world of good. Stay awake - see how you can make someone else's life that bit better. We need to believe that each of us can make a difference to our families, to the neighbourhood, to the school. One way is to keep in touch with God. Advent can be a time to make sure - through prayer, Mass, through helping the very poor - that we keep in touch with God. We allow God's grace and care to flow through us.

Reflection
Five times in this short passage Jesus tells me to be attentive. I would rather settle down to a comfortable life. But the world of God is breaking in everywhere, like an invasion. I ask for the grace to seek God in all things, as St Ignatius says.

Reflection
A new world order began with Jesus, and I have a part to play in it. Every day I review what went on, and as G M Hopkins says, ‘I greet him the days I meet him, and bless when I understand’.