Gathering the signs!

WORD 2day : Friday, 32nd week in Ordinary time

November 14, 2025: Wisdom 13:1-9; Luke 17: 26-37

Every now and then in the story of humanity, a story makes its rounds that the end of the world is bound to begin shortly... in a week or in a fixed time foresaid... with three days of darkness and other demonic signs. Though there is a curiosity that these horror stories evoke, they are merely manifestations of a spirituality that seeks some excitement all the time. Isn't that a very weak form of spirituality?

Jesus invites us to grow in our capacity to gather the signs from the experiences of ordinary day to day life... the lessons arising from the clashes caused by evil tendencies, cravings incited by selfishness, inhumanities provoked by senseless egoism, insensitivities and indifferences that make this world a worthless place to live in! People who make of everything and every person, a commodity, a means to their own gain and a possibility of profit!

Look at the entire scenario of today's armed stand-offs all around the world: every one of those is human made and so miserably evil... leave aside the question who started it and who is perpetrating it! Every time there is a disaster, human made or natural, there are those who shamelessly draw profit from it... what kind of a human person would do that? Worse still, a follower of Christ falling into that mode of living, that is a senseless shame. It is a clear sign that they do not gather any signs of what God wants from them!

The call hence, is to gather signs and understand the invitation from God. It is not about when the end of the world would come... but what does God want of me here and now, right here and right now! It would be unwise to remain deaf or blind to the messages that the Lord sends... let's remain awake and read those signs and channel our courses towards one united goal: the Reign of God here on earth.