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“Remember Lot’s Wife: Be Ready, Be Watchful, and Do Not Look Back” Brothers and sisters in Christ, In today's Gospel, Jesus speaks about the coming of the Son of Man. He refers to two important events in the Old Testament: the days of Noah and the days of Lot. In the time of Noah, people were eating, drinking, marrying, and conducting their ordinary activities until the flood came and destroyed them. In the time of Lot, people were buying and selling, planting and building until fire and sulfur rained down from heaven. What is interesting about these examples is that the people were not necessarily doing anything wrong by eating, drinking, marrying, buying, or building. These are ordinary activities of human life. So what was their problem? Their problem was that they were so absorbed in their everyday activities that they failed to recognize the seriousness of their spiritual situation. They lived as though life would continue forever, without considering their relationship wi...