Reflection for MONDAY, 29th Week, Ordinary Time.

By

 Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Director, Social Action Movement, Don Bosco Bidar

Today's Gospel Verses


 Luke  12:13-21 

Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?”  Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”* 

 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’

 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.  And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’ 

 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.” 

Today's Reflection 

A rich person is not one who has the most but one who needs the least.

And a truly rich person is one who really knows what is needed, what is necessary and what is important in life.

To be able to know all that can be a challenge because the loud voices of material wealth and possessions and money are not easy to resist.

In fact, if anyone were to turn away from money, wealth and possession would be labelled as a fool by the world.

But today’s gospel tells us what a fool really is. 

And to be called a fool by God is indeed devastating.

Even though it was in the setting of a parable, yet the message is clear.

It is certainly foolish to live as though this world is all that it has to offer in life.

The 1st reading tells us what true riches are, and it is to know the love and mercy of God.

And it is in Jesus Christ, who is infinitely rich in grace that we know what real riches and wealth are.

Because a rich person is one who knows that Jesus is the Saviour and that the true treasure is salvation.


 GOD BLESS YOU

Good morning. Have a nice day.