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Friends,
in today’s Gospel Jesus urges us to watch and pray as we await his
coming again. In one sense, Christianity is a religion of fulfillment
(the Lord has come), but in another sense, it is a religion of waiting,
for we expect the second coming of Jesus in the fullness of his power.
We
wait and watch and keep vigil. And this is difficult. But what we all
know is that great things take time. When a woman becomes pregnant, she
has to wait nine long months before the baby is ready.
“How
long does this analysis take?” a woman once asked Carl Jung. “Just as
long as it takes,” came the answer. Gestation, growth. During any of
these processes, the very worst thing one could do would be to pick at
it, to force it, to make it operate according to his private timetable.
So Jesus calls us to “be vigilant at all times and pray that you have
the strength…to stand before the Son of Man.”
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