“Lord, will only a few people be saved?” The question proposed in today’s Gospel a very basic question about our relationship with God. It is a question that still rolls through our minds and souls today. As usual Jesus does not directly answer the question. Instead, he calls us to strive towards a constant authenticity of life.
Some people will lack the desire to live as Christians. Others will just give up after dedicating some time to the Christian way. Christian life being only a brief or maybe long moment in their life. They spend time eating and drinking with Jesus in the local Christian community and listening to Christian teachings. These are like brief moments when Christian life produces a good feeling in us – memories of our First Communion, that great retreat for our Confirmation, that time we all got together for a community service project, or that one powerful Confession experience. Yet Jesus is quite clear in saying that is not enough. We are not called to be momentary Christians nor is the purpose of Christian life to make us feel good. As a result, in the end we have the devastating image of those folks locked out of the party, completely unrecognized, and even called evil.
Our culture has built an image of a comfortable Christian, a half Christian, a Christian according to my style. In our times, this is a very tempting and confusing way of defining Christian life. That is the wide gate and the wide path built on our own way of thinking and our own needs. It is important to be on guard and vigilant to maintain ourselves on the path of the Cross.
And people will come from the east and the west
and from the north and the south
and will recline at table in the Kingdom of God.
For behold, some are last who will be first,
and some are first who will be last.
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