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This episode discusses the Gospel reading from Luke 12:35-40 and reflects on the teachings of St Henry, emphasizing spiritual readiness.

35 Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands. Sint lumbi vestri praecincti, et lucernae ardentes in manibus vestris, 36 And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. et vos similes hominibus exspectantibus dominum suum quando revertatur a nuptiis : ut, cum venerit et pulsaverit, confestim aperiant ei. 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you, that he will gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and passing will minister unto them. Beati servi illi quos, cum venerit dominus, invenerit vigilantes : amen dico vobis, quod praecinget se, et faciet illos discumbere, et transiens ministrabit illis. 38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. Et si venerit in secunda vigilia, et si in tertia vigilia venerit, et ita invenerit, beati sunt servi illi. 39 But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open. Hoc autem…

People in this episode

Host: Ken Hagen

Topics covered

• Gospel readings
• Christian teachings
• Spiritual readiness
• St Henry
• Biblical interpretation

Keywords

• Gospel
• Luke
• St Henry
• spirituality
• Christianity
• readiness
• faith

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Books & works: Luke 12:35-40

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