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Theme: The Second Coming of Christ
Towards the year 2000, there were great speculations that the second coming of Christ would take place bringing the world to an end after three days of darkness. This made several persons live good moral lives. Unfortunately, the speculations were not true and many went back to sin and many more became less interested in the second coming of Christ and saw it as a fairy tale.
This was similar to the condition of the early Christians to whom Luke wrote. It was widely believed among the early Christians that the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple would coincide with the second coming of Christ and the end of the world. Unfortunately, Jerusalem was conquered and the temple was destroyed yet the world continued to exist. Disappointed as the early Christians were in their crises of faith, they gave up their belief in the second coming of Christ and began to indulge in earthly pleasures and moral laxity.
For this reason, St. Luke in presenting the gospel to them as we saw in the gospel reading (Luke 21:25–28, 34–36) reiterates the teachings of Christ about the second coming and advised them to be on their guard so as not to “be coarsened with debauchery, drunkenness and the cares of life so that the day of the Lord will not take them by surprise”.
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Towards the year 2000, there were great speculations that the second coming of Christ would take place bringing the world to an end after three days of darkness. This made several persons live good moral lives. Unfortunately, the speculations were not true and many went back to sin and many more became less interested in the second coming of Christ and saw it as a fairy tale.
This was similar to the condition of the early Christians to whom Luke wrote. It was widely believed among the early Christians that the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple would coincide with the second coming of Christ and the end of the world. Unfortunately, Jerusalem was conquered and the temple was destroyed yet the world continued to exist. Disappointed as the early Christians were in their crises of faith, they gave up their belief in the second coming of Christ and began to indulge in earthly pleasures and moral laxity.
For this reason, St. Luke in presenting the gospel to them as we saw in the gospel reading (Luke 21:25–28, 34–36) reiterates the teachings of Christ about the second coming and advised them to be on their guard so as not to “be coarsened with debauchery, drunkenness and the cares of life so that the day of the Lord will not take them by surprise”.
Please Click Here to Read more » uwakwereflections.com/2012/12/reflectionhomily-first-1st-sunday-of.html