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On Today’s Gospel

Posted: June 20, 2014 by CatholicJules in Personal Thoughts & Reflections
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Greed for power and wealth, lust in all it’s forms drives us far from God. Vanity takes over and nothing is ever good enough for there is always something or someone better. And whether we intended it or not, idolatry sets in. If we worship not ourselves then we will worship whatever passion fills our hearts and minds, taking up all of our time. We get what we want by all means even if force is necessary. And so in the absence of good what else can grow but hate, loathing, depression and more sin! So blind indeed are we in the absence of the one true light!

All we have and will ever need comes from God, why then do we worry and fret? If we must worry then we should worry when we find ourselves idle. For if we work for the glory of God and live out holy lives, we will always be busy finding and doing things to build His Kingdom. And we will be doing so with joy never finding ourselves in want.

Let us continue to be one body in Christ loving and serving one another, as we do so serving our Lord and God. Amen

FIRST READING
2 Chronicles 24:17–25

GOSPEL
Matthew 6:24–34

Jesus said to his disciples:
“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life–span? Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’ or ‘What are we to wear?’ All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”

On Today’s Gospel

Posted: June 20, 2014 by CatholicJules in Personal Thoughts & Reflections, Videos/Audio
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What are the most precious things we have tucked away in our locked drawers, safes, cupboards, secret compartments? Have we spent time and care, cleaning and placing them lovingly in dry boxes etc.  preserving them. Do we expect that they will lasts forever? Do we think we can take them with us when we die? Do we think that whoever takes over will care for them the way we have?

Do we spend the same time and energy nurturing the Word of God in our lives? Let us cherish the heavenly gifts we have been given, using them to build the Kingdom of our heavenly Father. Let see with our hearts through the eyes of our Lord. Amen

FIRST READING
2 Kings 11:1–4, 9–18, 20

GOSPEL
Matthew 6:19–23

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light; but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.”