Hi everyone. Welcome back to Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast, and we're currently looking at the

Gospel of Luke doing a verse-by-verse exegesis of the scriptures for each day's Catholic Mass. So today we want to look

at Luke chapter 12 verses 35 to 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. So that's our text for today.

Let's start by thinking about what has happened just prior to this. What is the context? So

Jesus is moving from Galilee to

Judea. He's getting close to the end of his life now. And as he's moving towards Jerusalem,

he's doing ministry along the way and he's speaking to the crowds. He has just been speaking to

the disciples just before this in Luke 12 about living their entire lives directed towards heaven. And you can hear that an exegesis

of those verses, so verse 22 to 35, as a bonus episode of the podcast. So if you want to hear what

comes just before this, that is available to you through the Patreon page. And you can check out

the show notes for that link. So we get to verse 35 today. Jesus is now

continuing the same theme of living your life directed towards heaven and he's going to focus

particularly on telling his disciples to be ready for his coming at the final judgment.

The cultural context is going to be important here because he's going to jump straight

into talking about weddings.

Now, in that culture, weddings were very important and they were quite elaborate.

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