La Sfîrsitul Lumii

At the End.
At the End of the World, God will separate his obedient followers from pretenders and unbelievers. The real evidence of our belief is the way we act. To treat all persons we encounter as if they are Jesus is no easy task. What we do for others demonstrates what we really think about Jesus' words to us: feed the hungry, give the homeless a place to stay, look after the sick.
"In many respects I would find an unresurrected Jesus easier to accept. Easter makes Him dangerous. Because of Easter I have to listen to his extravagant claims and can no longer pick and choose from His sayings. Moreover, Easter means He must be loose out there somewhere. Like the disciples, I never know where Jesus might turn up, how He might speak to me, what He might ask of me" (Philip Yancey).
Our Lord has taken on a disguise, a most unlikely disguise of the stranger, the poor, the hungry, the prisoner, the sick, the ragged ones of earth: "I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least brothers of Mine, you did it for Me" (Matthews 25:40).
We come to the church, we read the Gospel, we share the Body and Blood of Jesus, we meditate on Him, and we go out and look for Him in disguise... 

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