August 28 - Thursday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(1Thes.3:7-13; Ps.90:3-4,12-14,17; Mt.24:42-51) "Stay awake, therefore! You cannot know the day your Lord is coming." And what is it to stay awake, to be ready, but to do as Paul exhorts the Thessalonians in our first reading: to continue to grow in holiness until that day we meet with the Lord. This is our essential call. Here we are, having been converted to the Lord, having found faith in God as our foundation and been appointed servants by Christ until He should return. We are that "faithful, farsighted servant whom the master has put in charge of his household to dispense food at need."…
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