The Anchoress
Stumbled across this in my reading some time ago and posted about it. Stumbled across the post again this afternoon and thought it seemed apposite, in a general, universal, whatever-kind-of-day-you’ve-been-having way:
Though the Lord has established the signs of his coming, the time of their fulfillment has not been plainly revealed. These signs have come and gone with a multiplicity of change; more than that, they are still present. His final coming is like his first. As holy men and prophets waited for him, thinking that he would reveal himself in their own day, so today each of the faithful longs to welcome him in his own day, because Christ has not made plain the day of his coming.
He has not made it plain for this reason especially, that no one may think that he whose power and dominion rule all numbers and times is ruled by fate and time . . .
From a Commentary on the Diatessaron by Saint Ephrem , hermit, poet, and Doctor of the Church since, um, 1920, a mere 1547 years after his death. When a guy like this says, Keep watch, he means it for the long haul.
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