Kingdoms???

Wednesday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time

Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul

Luke 19:11-28

Kingdom language is tough for this 21st Century reader!  And this is a tough parable for me to grasp.  

My best grappling gives me a parable about what makes for a successful kingdom.  You want the best and most competent folks in the right places.  As part of Luke's unfolding narrative, the story may be a corrective to thoughts that Jesus' entry into Jerusalem means that the end is near.  The Gospel of Luke is  the long-haul gospel.  Which makes sense.  It is the latest Gospel written.  It is the heaviest on prayer and the Holy Spirit…both "long haul" needs.  The Lukan Jesus is telling us "to wait patiently for the final appearance of Jesus and to deal faithfully with our possessions in the meantime." (Sacra Pagina p293)

So

Here we are 

Still in the meantime

Still relying on Prayer and the Holy Spirit

Getting ready once again to ADVENT

…to advent in ourselves and in our world 

a crisper and more discernible 

sign of the Kingdom Coming...