Today's Gospel in Art - Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit

Hattachi © Tokihiro Satō photography 1996

Gospel of 22nd October 2019 - Luke 12: 36-38

Jesus said to his disciples:

'See that you are dressed for action and have your lamps lit. Be like men waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, ready to open the door as soon as he comes and knocks. Happy those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. I tell you solemnly, he will put on an apron, sit them down at table and wait on them. It may be in the second watch he comes, or in the third, but happy those servants if he finds them ready.'

Reflection on the black and white photograph

How much I love the start of today's reading: 'be dressed for action and have your lamps lit'… A proper call to action and for us to go out on our apostolic mission. It reminds me of the tone set by Pope Francis at the start of his pontificate, stressing the point that the Church doesn't just have a mission, no, the Church itself IS a mission.

God created each of us and has a plan for each of us. In order to execute this plan, He created each one of us with a multitude of different gifts and talents that have an enormous potential. In today's reading Christ tells us to be ready to use these talents, to go out in the world and put them into work… and thus light our lamps, so in our apostolic mission we can light the world with our missionary zeal and love for God.

For today's reading, I selected a black and white photograph by Japanese photographer Tokihiro Sato, one of Japan's most accomplished and well respected artists working in the photographic medium.... To read on see: www.christianart.today/daily-gospel-reading/211