There is a phrase that goes like this: "absence makes the heart grow fonder".
It is a proverb to mean that you feel more affection for those you love when parted from them.
But does absence really make the heart grow fonder?
Or is it "out of sight, out of mind"?
Well, absence truly does make the heart grow fonder, particularly when it comes to love and intimacy.
St. Paul expressed this sentiment in the 1st reading when he said that he was earnestly praying night and day to be able to see the Thessalonians face to face again.
Obviously, he felt deeply for the Thessalonians and it really made his heart grew fonder.
But in the gospel parable, when the master was away, it was for the dishonest servant "out of sight, out of mind".
In this particular time when we are slowly getting back to our spiritual routine of coming for Mass as often as we could, we are certainly aware that there are those whom we have not met for some time already, and it is more than a year.
They may be out of sight but they must not be out of our minds.
As the Body of Christ, we keep them in our prayers that God will also bless them and answer their prayers and our hope is that we will meet them again one day.