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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> in today's Gospel passage the Lord compares the clueless behavior of
our time with that of Noah. Listen to his warning: "Jesus said to his
disciples, 'The coming of the Son of Man will repeat what happened in
Noah's time.'"</b></span> Those are<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>n't very reassuring words.</b></span></span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Then
he specifies: <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>people were eating and drinking, marrying and being given
in marriage</b></span> right up to the time of the flood. And <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>then,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>when it came
with shocking suddenness, they were destroyed. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>The end of an old world
had arrived</b></span>, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>but the inhabitants of that world were clueless.</b></span> A new
world was coming, but the prospective citizens of it had no idea how to
prepare for it. </span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Our
version</b></span> of Noah's world-destroying flood<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> might be the crashing of a
huge comet into the earth</b></span>. What if we knew that a comet was coming, but
we did nothing about it, we adjusted in no way to it? This was the
situation of those in Noah's time and, Jesus suggests, those in his own
time. And it's our situation, too. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>We must prepare for the Lord's coming
by patterning our lives on the Gospel.</b></span></span></b></b></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>