hasten the day

2 Peter 3:12-15,17-18; Ps 90 In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge; Mark 12:13-17


Words form St. Peter: "wait for and hasten the coming of the day of God."

This is no ordinary waiting.  We do not sit around with our hands in our pants trying to look our best.  We do not twiddle our thumbs, whistling as we go hoping we won't get left out.

We wait in haste.  We actively pursue that which we anticipate.

What do we anticipate: "a new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells."

I love that word, "righteousness."


Righteousness: the state of him who is as he ought to be. Think about that for a moment.

Righteousness means we are as we were created to be.  We are no longer potentially but we are actually who God creates us to be.

This is where true integrity lies, being not as we say we are but living as God directs us to live.

This is how we wait and hasten the day of God.  We must pursue the goal with diligence.

We must start with the way the first reading ends today: "to him be glory."
To him be glory is our mantra.

As St. JoseMaria Escriva reminds us, "all glory to God, is an emphatic confession of our own nothingness, Jesus is everything.

Again he tells us, "with your will aided by grace, "squeeze" out each one of your actions, so that nothing remains in them that smacks of human pride, of self-complacency."

To him be glory and the we are on the path of righteousness, being ad we ought, being as we were created to be.

Wait and hasten the day of God.

Get your hands our pants, stop twiddling your thumbs and get a move on, there is glory awaiting, for him above all.

Get busy with glory here and enter  into  glory everlasting.

today we celebrate the feast of St.Boniface, the original AxeMan.  He spread the faith in germany.  Our german heritage was touched by the glory of God by St. Boniface's fire for waiting and hastening the day of God.