The End of Times

 Man has always been fascinated by the end of the world. This Sunday the priest told us something that, I must confess, I had to read the Gospel twice to verify. First, he warned us that false prophets will come, claiming to be Jesus, but we must not believe them. And second, which is what I had to reread in the Gospel, that there will be natural disasters and political conflicts, but as Jesus said, this is not the end. He also told us that no one knows the day or the hour, and this is in the Bible as well. Regarding the destruction of the temple and the persecution of the apostles, he said that this had also been said to all the martyrs who have died for Christ's sake. And also to all Christians who are persecuted for their faith in these times. And as Jesus said, the temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, and only what we now know as the Wailing Wall remained

So, we shouldn't assume we live in the end times, but we should be prepared for our own judgment at the end of our days, because that will surely come. Let's try to live the Beatitudes, go to confession as often as we can and receive the sacraments, read the scriptures, pray, be merciful, and thus we will always be prepared for the end of our lives and even for the end of the world.