None of us know when our soul will be taken to Judgment. That is why Catholics take This Good Advice from Jesus: “Stay awake!” and “Be prepared!”
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Question 1: “What is this ‘Good Advice from Jesus’?”
Answer: “In Mt 24:42-51, Jesus said to His disciples: ‘Stay awake!’“.
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Question 2: “Why do we have to ‘Stay awake!’?”
Answer: “Jesus made that clear: ‘For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.’”
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Question 3: “What happens to us on the ‘day your Lord will come.’?”
Answer: “Our ‘Lord’ will judge our immortal soul! ‘So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.’”
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Question 4: “Did Jesus make it easy for everyone to understand how important it is to ‘Stay awake!’ and ‘be prepared’ for our Judgment Day?”
Answer: “He made it so clear that even criminals could understand it! ‘Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into.’”
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Question 5: “Which people are best ‘prepared’ for His inevitable Judgment?”
Answer: “Catholics! ‘Who, then, is the faithful and prudent servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household to distribute to them their food at the proper time?’”
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Question 6: “I don’t understand! Why is ‘food distribution’ an important part of ‘Staying awake!’ and ‘being prepared’?”
Answer: “The ‘food’ to be ‘distributed’ is The Actual Body and Blood that Jesus died to leave on earth. By The Miracle of Transubstantiation, His Catholic priests ‘distribute’ that Holy Food to every ‘servant’ who is blessed to obey The Call to Catholic Communion that Jesus repeated 14 times!
‘If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.’
If we have willfully let any ‘unholy vanity’ keep us from feeding our soul with That Holy Food, we are forever lost.”
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Question 7: “What do Catholics try to do?”
Answer: “We pray to be forever among: ‘Blessed is that servant whom his master on his arrival finds doing so. Amen, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property.’”
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Question 8: “What happens to ‘wicked servants’ who do not ‘stay awake’ and ‘be prepared’?”
Answer: “‘But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is long delayed,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with drunkards, the servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish him severely and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’”
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May all be blessed to “Stay Awake!” and “be prepared!”
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