October 22. “Be ready.” This is the Scouts motto drilled into them from their earliest days in the Scouting pack. “Be properly dressed, have your equipment prepared.”  The Scouts prepare for an outing or an activity practising a new skill to earn, what we sometimes call, “Brownie points.”  But it isn’t only the skill but the whole idea of action, of planning, creating, developing our talents and learning to do all this in relationship too. Our overall task is to prepare for a journey to the Father with Jesus, his Holy Spirit and in the company of the Church.  That is the expression and mission of synodality. 

Reflect, share, act. Scripture: Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning and be like men who are waiting for the master to come home from the marriage feast.  Luke 12:35-38: Pope Francis:  it is clear from the first pages of the Bible that work is an essential part of human dignity.  Man is presented as a labourer who works the earth, harnesses the forces of nature and produces the bread of arduous toil in addition to cultivating his own talents. AL23. Underlying every form of work is a concept of the relationship which we can and must have with what is other than ourselves.  LS 125   Action and Prayer.  Do I take my work seriously as a value?  Pray: Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in us the fire of your love, so that walking together we may renew the face of the earth.