'You also must be ready.' Sunday Reflections, 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
St Francis and Brother Leo meditating on death , El Greco, 1600-02 [ Web Gallery of Art ] Readings (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa) Gospel Luke 12:32-48 [shorter: 35-40] (Revised Standard Version – Catholic Edition) [For shorter version omit italics] Jesus said to his disciples: "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. "Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may op