"For I was hungry . . . .", a reflection following the reading of the Gospel, Matthew 25.
Vladika Lazar asked David Goa to reflect on Matthew 25, the appointed reading for the Sunday of the Last Judgement, All Saints of North America Monastery, Dewdney, British Columbia. Sunday, February 23, the day after we buried Vladika Varlaam, was the Sunday of the Last Judgement. This Gospel text speaks of the separation of the sheep from the goats. It has often been read as if it was a condemnation pronounced by an angry judge. But reading the Gospel with the heart of Jesus Christ one hears it through his tears, his sense of sorrow that those on the left turned away from communion with "the least of these my brothers and sisters". The searing fire spoken of in the text is also the voice of our conscience when it awakens to our turning away from the grace offered to us when we meet Jesus Christ in the hungry, thirsty, in the stranger, those naked and sick and imprisoned.
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