Readings

* Ez 34:11-12.15-17 – Yahweh promises that he will personally take care of his people.
* 1 Cor 15:20-26.28 – The Risen Christ is the beginning of a renewed mankind.
* Mt 25:31-46 – Our eternal destiny depends on our attitude/actions toward the needy.

Theme: THE DECISIVE ISSUE AT THE LAST JUDGMENT

The Incarnation of God’s Son is not an event that concerned only Jesus Christ, Mary Most Holy and a few other persons closely related to Jesus. Rather, it is an event that concerns the whole of mankind. With the Incarnation, in fact, every human person has become a brother/sister of Jesus Christ, and thereby a “relative of God,” so to speak.
Such a wonderful reality not only confers a tremendous dignity on each of us already now, but will also be the basis for our eternal happiness or unhappiness when we face Christ as our Divine Judge at the end of time. At that moment – the moment of truth – everything will depend on how we have treated our brothers and sisters. Jesus, we are warned today, will consider done to himself whatever we have done to them, for he identifies himself especially with those in need. On that day, blessed shall we be if our Kuya and Judge Jesus will say to us, “I consider done to me all the good you did to the least of my brethren. Come, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world!”

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