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Nov 14, 2025

Luke 17: 26-27

Jesus said to his disciples:

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking, and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed all of them —it will be like that on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, anyone on the housetop who has belongings in the house must not come down to take them away; and likewise anyone in the field must not turn back. Remember Lot’s wife. Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it. I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. There will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken and the other left.” Then they asked him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”

New Revised Standard Version, copyright 1989, by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. USCCB approved.

Nov 14, 2025

Live in Readiness

Jesus ends today’s Gospel with a vital truth about discipleship: the day of the Son of Man will come, but no one knows the day or the hour. Our task is not to predict it, but to live each day as if it were already upon us.

“If we stay ready,” as the saying goes, “we don’t have to get ready.”

Now is the time. This moment is holy. Today, not tomorrow, is the day to awaken, to forgive, to serve, to hope, to love without reserve.

Let go of the need to read signs or calculate outcomes. Devote your heart instead to living in readiness, and the Holy Spirit will deepen within you and give you all you need, today!

Fr. Phil Cooke, SJ is a member of the Midwest Jesuits  and is Pastor at St. Isaac Jogue’s Parish in Rapid City, SD. 

Nov 14, 2025

Prayer

Jesus, I don’t know when You will come again. Send your Spirit and prepare me here and now!

—Fr. Phil Cooke, SJ

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