Luke 12: 13-21
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me." He replied to him, "Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?" Then he said to the crowd, "Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions."
Then he told them a parable. "There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, 'What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?' And he said, 'This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, "Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!"' But God said to him, 'You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?' Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God."
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is for my friend George, who was on his motorcycle and was hit by a truck.
"Man - whether man or woman - is the only being among the creatures of the visible world that God the Creator 'has willed for its own sake'; that creature is thus a person. Being a person means striving towards self-realization, which can only be achieved 'through a sincere gift of self'. The model for this interpretation of the person is God himself as Trinity, as a communion of Persons. To say that man is created in the image and likeness of God means that man is called to exist 'for' others, to become a gift." - (excerpt from Pope John Paul II's Muleris Dignitatem, The Dignity of Women)
May God give you the grace to be more charitable in all your relationships. Take care and God Bless.
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