"The unprofitable servant cast ye out into the exterior darkness." He ever shunned the light and now it will never be his. He was unprofitable, that was his sin, he did nothing for his Master. All sins, however terrible, will be forgiven if the sinner turns to God and repents, because his repentance shows that he is "trading," though he may often fail in his business; but the unprofitable servant carries on no trade with God at all, he leaves Him out altogether. There is nothing for God to do but to leave him out in the "exterior darkness" which he has deliberately chosen.
Colloquy with the Master, Who though He is a "long time" coming, is never far from those who are trading for Him.
Resolution. Never to leave the Master out of anything I do.
Spiritual Bouquet. "Well done good and faithful servant!"
STIR UP!
"I think it meet ... to stir you up by putting you in remembrance."
(2 Pet. i. 13).
1st. Prelude. Paul writing to Timothy: "Stir up the grace of God which is in thee" (2 Tim. i. 6).
2nd. Prelude. Grace to stir myself up this Advent.
On the Sunday before Advent and nine times during the Advent Masses, the Church puts on the lips of her children this prayer: Stir up, O Lord. Let us try in this Meditation to catch her spirit which runs all through the Advent season and see what it is that she wants God to stir up.