Jesus calls us to stay awake, be vigilant, and cultivate attentiveness in our spiritual lives, especially in times of uncertainty and distraction.

This homily reflects on the gift of time, emphasizing that life and the time we have are our most precious and limited resources. At the end, nothing material can be taken with us.

Jesus commands us not only to love God and worship Him, but also to actively love our neighbors. This homily calls us to examine who in our lives needs our attention, especially those we may overlook or neglect.

All of us are also on this continuum. If we are honest few of us have a bed of roses in life. We all veer down this continuum depending on circumstance of life. Hopefully, few of us are on this end but some of us might be suffering and going towards that end. There are few of us who have everything going perfectly. No arguments. No stresses in our life. We are all just happy-go-lucky. It’s wonderful! That is very rare indeed.

This homily reflects on how suffering and dying hold deep transformative power in Christian life, leading believers from worldly ambition to authentic discipleship grounded in service and sacrifice.

The great Dominican mystic, Meister Eckhart says it well, “The spiritual life is more about subtraction than it is addition.” It is more about letting go of things than it is to accumulate and gathering things, even good things of the spiritual things of our life; it is about letting go of everything to follow and to accept God’s love.