Tuesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Intention: For all who are called to roles of leadership and advocacy in society, that their hearts and minds will be open to God’s wisdom and guidance.
Today’s Gospel | Luke 12:35-38
Jesus said to his disciples: “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them. And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants.”
From the Sixth Meditation for the Time of Retreat | Saint John Baptist de La Salle
Because Guardian Angels are highly enlightened and know the good as it is, through them God makes known this good and the secrets of his holy will to those whom he has predestined to be his adopted children in Jesus Christ and by whom he has called them to be his heirs. By the light these angels share with those who are called, they teach them the good that must be practiced and what they must do to become heirs.
This is symbolized by the ladder that Jacob saw in a dream when he was going to Mesopotamia. Angels were going up and coming down the ladder. They were going up to God to make known to him the needs of those for whom he made them responsible and to receive his orders for them. They were coming down to teach those whom they were guiding the will of God concerning their salvation.
You must do the same thing for the children entrusted to your care. It is your duty to go up to God every day in prayer to learn from him all that you must teach the children and then to come down to them by accommodating them at their level in order to instruct them about what God has communicated for them to you in your prayer, as well as in Holy Scripture, which contains the truths of religion and the maxims of the holy Gospel.
Prayer
Eternal Father, on this day we pray for the grace to always be prepared to greet you when you find us in the business of our days. Make room in our hearts for you and for the people who need us. Help us to receive the One who said, “I am the light of the world” and to welcome in his name all of the friends and strangers who come to us each day. May we be ready and vigilant to accept the love that you offer to us and have the courage to share it with others. We ask this of you who lives and reigns with your Son and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.