Monday, November 23, 2020

34th Week, Ordinary Time, Tuesday, 24-11-2020

Apocalypse 14:14-19 / Luke 21:5-11       

The word "procrastination" means to keep delaying something that needed to be done immediately.

There may be an urgency to it but it may not necessarily be an emergency.

In other words, to procrastinate is to sit on something urgent and telling ourselves, and others, to wait.

Though it may need immediate attention, it is not an emergency, so we wait, and we also make others wait.

The 1st reading gives a rather disturbing image of judgement and punishment.

That phrase "the winepress of God's anger" cuts into our comfortable and complacent idea that God is love and forgiveness.

We begin to take God's love and forgiveness for granted and so we delay and procrastinate the need to cleanse our hearts of sin.

We get used to sin just like how we can get used to dirt if we don't it up often.

So we make God wait as we delay and procrastinate our repentance and conversion.

But let us remember that " winepress of God's anger" and not to test God's patience.

Let us turn back to the Lord and ask for mercy and forgiveness. Let us wait no longer.