My brothers and sisters in Christ, let us go out into the world and truly share Christ with others by proclaiming and teaching His gospel fearlessly and solely with His power and authority. Let us also avoid all distractions with prayer, so that we can focus and concentrate on our mission of evangelizing the world.
Today’s parable reminds us to continually cloth ourselves with God’s sanctifying grace by staying awake, by being ready and by staying focused on our Lord and not letting temporal things, worries and concerns distract us from preparing ourselves for the coming of Christ, the Bridegroom, for we know neither the day nor the hour that will happen.
So my dear friends in Christ, if we truly want to welcome and accept the gospel of Christ, we have to open heartedly hear the word of God proclaimed to us, sincerely accept it, then work on understanding it better by paying attention to the word explained to us, and letting it bear fruit in us through the way we live our lives as Christians in the world.