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[Emoke Greschik]

*Friday, August 31, 2018*
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Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time

Matthew 25:1-13






*Friends, our Gospel today is the parable that compares the kingdom of
heaven "with ten virgins who with their lamps went out to meet the
bridegroom." This is an image borrowed from the customs of the time. The
bridesmaids would wait for the groom and, upon his appearance, accompany
him. Well, this is the Christian community, waiting for Christ the groom to
arrive. Did Jesus tell this parable because he knew that his Church would
be in for a long period of waiting? We are wise in our waiting if we pray
on a regular basis; if we educate ourselves in the faith; if we participate
in the sacraments, especially the Eucharist; if we perform the corporal and
spiritual works of mercy; if we become people of love. We are foolish in
our waiting if we neglect these things. And here is one of the hardest
truths of this parable: the divine life, so cultivated, cannot simply be
shared with another at the last minute. The wise virgins are not being
difficult and self-absorbed when they tell their friends that they can’t
help them. A saint can’t simply infuse his life into another; it just
doesn’t work that way.*
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