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Good News Reflections:
Making scripture meaningful to your daily life
by Terry Modica

Dying as a servant of God means that our souls make good use of the dying process.

Good News Reflection for:

Thursday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time.
November 6, 2025

Today’s Prayer:

Lord, help me to be merciful in my thoughts about others and to look at my brothers and sisters as You look at Your children. Amen.

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Today’s Readings:

Romans 14:7-12
Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14
Luke 15:1-10
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Living and dying for Christ

Saint Paul says in today’s first reading that while we’re alive on earth, we’re to live for the Lord, and when we die, we should die still serving him, even with our final breaths.

As Christians who are serious about holy living, we put great emphasis on living for the Lord, but are we ready to die for the Lord? In service to others?

Dying for Jesus doesn’t always mean martyrdom. We could wither away in a nursing home while dementia steals our ability to think and still die a holy death. Dying as a servant of God means that our souls make good use of the dying process. Every moment of our life, including our last one, should be lived for the glory of God and the purposes of his kingdom. Everything else is a waste of important opportunities.

We should be glad that we’re going Home to the Lord. Death is our door from earth to heaven (which includes purgatory, the purging of whatever remains with us after death that cannot exist in the kingdom of God). But our deaths can mean so much more.

I want every moment of my life to be lived for God, in God, and through God. I want every day to make a difference in his kingdom. And I want my death to make no less of a difference, so I’ve put him in charge of how, when and where it happens. I pray that if I become demented and can no longer understand my surroundings, even then will my soul remain aware of God and the calling to pray for others.

If we suffer in dying, we can ask that our suffering be united with Christ’s Passion for the sake of those who still need his redemption. If nothing else, we can ask that our death be so peaceful, no matter how deteriorated our health becomes, that it evangelizes those who watch.

What about the people who don’t have this attitude? In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus talks about the shepherd who seeks a lost sheep until it’s found. A lost sheep is anyone who belongs to Jesus but isn’t following him with the rest of the flock or has run away enticed by the unholy ways of the world. Because you know someone like this, remember the promise of this scripture. Pray for this person like so: “Lord Jesus, don’t let -(name)- die until he/she is ready to be found by You.” This prayer always gets answered!

Jesus will keep seeking and calling upon that person. He will not give up. He will take initiative and act in ways that you cannot see. Because your prayers are united with the prayers of Jesus himself, the Father will not allow death to come before Jesus is holding that person safely in his arms. It might happen at the moment of death, or perhaps sooner, but it will happen.

I witnessed this in my father-in-law. Even in the brain-fog of Alzheimer’s disease, he opened himself to God’s love during the last two weeks of his life. God is awesome! He always keeps his promises!

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