Monday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s first reading from Revelation offers us the image of the hundred and forty-four thousand, those who had the Lamb’s name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. This host is the army of the Lamb, through whom the Lamb will conquer all enemies, not by strength of arms, but by their witness of love and fidelity to Jesus Christ, the Lamb they follow wherever he goes.
We as Christians have already been sealed with the name of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in our Baptism. The question is whether we, like the one hundred and forty-four thousand, are willing to follow the Lamb wherever he goes. This will necessarily mean passing through the Cross. If we are willing, then we too will sing new hymn, the new song of victory, that the hundred and forty-four thousand are singing before the throne.
Today, let us follow the Lamb. Let us examine ourselves and ask the Holy Spirit to show us where he is leading, so that we too may sing the song of victory.