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SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE IS STILL TO BE FOUND

Seek the Lord while he is still to be found,
call to him while he is still near.
Let the wicked man abandon his way,

         the evil man his thoughts. 
         Let him turn back to the Lord who will take pity on him,
         to our God who is rich in forgiving;
         for my thoughts are not your thoughts,
         my ways not your ways – it is the Lord who speaks.
        Yes, the heavens are as high above earth
         as my ways are above your ways,
         my thoughts above your thoughts. Mass Readings

Life to me is Christ 
Christ will be glorified in my body, whether by my life or by my death. Life to me, of course, is Christ
but then death would bring me something more; but then again, if living in this body means doing work which is having good results – I do not know what I should choose. I am caught in his dilemma: I want to be gone and be with Christ, which would be very much the better, but for me to stay alive in this body is a more urgent need for your sake. Avoid anything in your everyday lives that would be unworthy of the gospel of Christ.

Jesus said to his disciples 'The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner going out at daybreak to hire 

‘The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner going out at daybreak to hire workers for his vineyard. He made an agreement with the workers for one denarius a day, and sent them to his vineyard. Going out at about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place and said to them, “You go to my vineyard too and I will give you a fair wage.” So they went. At about the sixth hour and again at ninth hour, he went out again and did the same.

Then at about the eleventh hour he went out and found more men standing round, and he said to them, “Why have you been standing here idle all day?” “Because no one has hired us” they answered. He said to them, “You go into my vineyard too.” In the evening, the owner of the vineyard said to his bailiff, “Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last arrivals and ending with the first.” So those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came forward and received one denarius each. When the first came, they expected to get more, but they too received one denarius each.  They look it, but grumbled at the landowner. “The men  who came last” they said “have done only one hour,and you have treated them the same as us, though we have done a heavy day’s work in all the heat.” 

He answered one of them and said, My friend, I am not being unjust to you; did we not agree on one denarius “My friend, I am not being unjust to you; did we not agree on one denarius? Take your earnings and go.  I choose to pay the last comer as much as I pay you. Have I no right to do what I like with my own? 

Why be envious because I am generous?” 

Thus the last will be first, and the first, last.’




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