What Time Is It?

“You know what hour it is,
how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep.
For salvation is nearer to us now
than when we first believed;
the night is far gone, the day is at hand.

Let us then cast off the works of darkness
and put on the armor of light;
let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day,
not in reveling and drunkenness,
not in debauchery and licentiousness,
not in quarreling and jealousy.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make no provision for the flesh,
to gratify its desires.”

(Romans 13:11b – 14)

Almost two thousand years ago St. Paul cried out to the Church, to know the time that is upon us!  The time is now, he proclaimed – it is now – now is the time, now is the hour, the day is even now at hand.

Jesus broke into the world, the ever-drowsy world of the nearly blind and the hard of hearing,  with the ever-sharp and the warmly calling, the truth of God.  He came as light; He entrusted His Church with His light:

“Be light!
Awaken, and awake!
Beloved, be love, be lovers!
The Day
is at hand!”

The world does watch.
How we need the fire of faith!
How we need to not leave Him,
to not turn from Him,
anymore.