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The gospel . . . asks Christians to detach themselves from material goods, which are for the most part illusory, and to do their duty faithfully, constantly aspiring to heaven. May the believer remain alert and watchful to be ready to welcome Jesus when he comes in his glory.
By means of examples taken from everyday life, the Lord exhorts his disciples, that is, us, to live with this inner disposition, like those servants in the parable who were waiting for their master’s return. “Blessed are those servants,” he said, “whom the master finds awake when he comes” (Luke 12:37). We must therefore watch, praying and doing good.
It is true, we are all travelers on earth, as … the Letter to the Hebrews appropriately reminds us. It presents Abraham to us in the clothes of a pilgrim, as a nomad who lives in a tent and sojourns in a foreign land. He has faith to guide him. “By faith,” the sacred author wrote, “Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went…
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