Matthew 25: 42-51
Jesus
said to his disciples:
“Stay awake!
For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.
Be sure of this:
if the master of the house
had known the hour of night when the thief was coming,
he would have stayed awake
and not let his house be broken into.
So too, you also must be prepared,
for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.
“Who, then, is the faithful and prudent servant,
whom the master has put in charge of his household
to distribute to them their food at the proper time?
Blessed is that servant whom his master on his arrival finds doing so.
Amen, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property.
But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is long delayed,’
and begins to beat his fellow servants,
and eat and drink with drunkards,
the servant’s master will come on an unexpected day
and at an unknown hour and will punish him severely
and assign him a place with the hypocrites,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.”
“Stay awake!
For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.
Be sure of this:
if the master of the house
had known the hour of night when the thief was coming,
he would have stayed awake
and not let his house be broken into.
So too, you also must be prepared,
for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.
“Who, then, is the faithful and prudent servant,
whom the master has put in charge of his household
to distribute to them their food at the proper time?
Blessed is that servant whom his master on his arrival finds doing so.
Amen, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property.
But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is long delayed,’
and begins to beat his fellow servants,
and eat and drink with drunkards,
the servant’s master will come on an unexpected day
and at an unknown hour and will punish him severely
and assign him a place with the hypocrites,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.”
Jesus instituted his Church. When he departed he
entrusted the care and operation of that Church to his beloved disciples. They
in turn entrusted it to their disciples. And thus the chain of apostolic
succession began. The Church is now in our care. If Jesus came back today do
you think he will approve of our stewardship? Have we stayed true to the Master’s
instructions or have we strayed? If he came back today do you think he would be
pleased to find 40,000+ denominations of Christian?
“Who, then,
is the faithful and prudent servant, whom the master has put in charge of his
household to distribute to them their food at the proper time?
I am Catholic because I believe the claims of the
Catholic Church are true. The more I study religion in general and Catholicism
in particular the deeper I believe these claims. The more I study the clearer
it becomes. Catholicism is beautiful and genius and could have only been
created by the hand of God. For those who do little more than go to Mass on
Sunday this beauty and genius is obscured. For a non-Catholic looking in it is
more confusing than a first grader trying to make heads and tails of a calculus
book.
One day the Master will return and all will be made clear
to everyone, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.
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