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Mo Nguyen
REPENT WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME!
REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (Luke 13:1-9)
REPENT WHILE THERE IS TIME
On his journey to Jerusalem, Jesus speaks as a prophet, summoning people to conversion. He does this, in today’s Gospel, by interpreting two well-known incidents and then telling a parable.
The first incident is an atrocity brought about by human cruelty. Orders from Pilate have brought about the massacre of a number of Galileans who were sacrificing in the Temple.
The second, again involving large-scale loss of life, is due to natural causes: the fall of a tower in Siloam, leading to the death of eighteen persons.
Concerning both incidents, Jesus wards off a false conclusion that religious people are all too prone to draw: namely that the victims of such calamities were receiving divine punishment for a sinfulness from which others were free.
He then tells the parable about the fig tree to make the further point that, far from attempting to judge the sinfulness of others, everyone should interpret such events as a warning to take stock of their own lives lest far greater disaster-eternal ruin-befall them. Without speculating in any way about punishment, he simply points out that instances of sudden, unforeseen death should serve as a warning to all that the time, the space left for conversion, may be short.
As always, the urgency – the prophetic passion – of Jesus stems from his intense sense of what God wants to do for people: God wants to set us free for life and for love. There is time for that now. But the opportunity will not be there indefinitely.
Brendan Byrne, SJ
GEORGE MICHAEL - (PRAYING FOR TIME) REPENT, THE TIME IS RUNNING OUT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaI8Cqogujk
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