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32nd Sunday In Ordinary Time (Year A)

In this week’s Gospel, Jesus tells us a story about how it is important to be ready and prepared for whatever will happen.

There were ten women who are waiting at a wedding for the bridegroom to arrive. It is dark and so they all have lamps with them to light the way. But what did five of them have that the other five didn’t?

Let’s think a bit about being prepared.

Five of them were sensible and took extra oil with them, so that if the bridegroom was late they would still be able to light his way. They were prepared.

What happened next?

The bridegroom was very late. It was after midnight before the women were asked to go out and meet him and five of them no longer had enough oil for their lamps. They were not prepared and ended up being left outside the wedding.

How do you think they felt about being left outside?

Sometimes things happen that we do not expect and we realise that we are not ready for them.

Can you think of a time when this has happened to you?
What happened and how did you feel?

Can you think of a time when you were ready for something? When you were well prepared? What happened and how did you feel?

Jesus asks us to be ready and prepared to be kind and loving to others whenever we have the chance. Are you ready to try to help people when they need some support?

How do you think you can show you are ready to help others?

Let us try our best to be prepared in this coming week to be loving, kind and generous.

Let us do our best to be ready to help others at home, at school, in the local community and around the world.

Let us pray together:

We pray for all people around the world who face natural disasters: that they may be able to prepare as best they can to protect themselves. Lord, in your mercy…
We pray for our parish, family and friends: that we may be ready to follow Jesus and treat others, as we would wish to be treated. Lord, in your mercy…
We pray that we may always be ready to help others, to be kind and loving and to follow you. Lord, in your mercy…

Closing prayer: God of all, help us to be ready to share what we have, to treat others, as we would wish to be treated and to try to make the world a fairer place. Amen.

Rozeta Ambrose- REL- Sacraments

rambrose@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au