Reflections on Sunday's Mass: August 1 2010
This is the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
“Teacher, tell my brother to share my inheritance with me!” Perhaps Jesus, as he framed his response, was thinking of the passionate outburst of Qoheleth in the Book of Ecclesiastes, in response to the same issue: “Vanity of vanities!” We can all recall examples of the family distress that can accompany such matters—and the irony of a precious life that has been misdirected in the acquisition of earthly treasure. As Paul writes to the Colossians, let us take care to avoid “the greed that becomes idolatry.”
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