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GOSPEL POWER | AUGUST 17, 2021 - TUESDAY
GOSPEL POWER | AUGUST 17, 2021 - Tuesday - 20th Week in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: Jgs 2:11-19
Responsorial Psalm: Ps 85 – The Lord speaks of peace to his people
Gospel: Mt 19:23-30
Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astounded and said, “Then who can be saved?” But Jesus looked at them and said, “For mortals it is impossible, but for God all things are possible.” Then Peter said in reply, “Look, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?” Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man is seated on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”
Reflection:
Jesus declared in an earlier Gospel-passage that the gate that leads to life is a narrow one; only a few enter through it because only a few find it (cf. Mt 7:13-14). Material riches, which offer all kinds of comforts and ease in this world, make the narrow gate to the Kingdom difficult to find. But this is not because the gate is purposely hidden, but because of the state of the rich person’s heart. The first thing that material wealth silences is the restlessness of the human heart that can find its rest only in God. Satisfaction with a life of luxury dulls the desire for the things that truly matter and that bring ultimate fulfillment to the human spirit. Riches, when not shared, become toxic and can put at risk one’s eternal destiny, for God and mammon cannot be served simultaneously (cf. Mt 6:24).
Prayer:
Lord Jesus, deliver us from the peril of becoming possessed by worldly possessions. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER | AUGUST 17, 2021 - Tuesday - 20th Week in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: Jgs 2:11-19
Responsorial Psalm: Ps 85 – The Lord speaks of peace to his people
Gospel: Mt 19:23-30
Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astounded and said, “Then who can be saved?” But Jesus looked at them and said, “For mortals it is impossible, but for God all things are possible.” Then Peter said in reply, “Look, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?” Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man is seated on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”
Reflection:
Jesus declared in an earlier Gospel-passage that the gate that leads to life is a narrow one; only a few enter through it because only a few find it (cf. Mt 7:13-14). Material riches, which offer all kinds of comforts and ease in this world, make the narrow gate to the Kingdom difficult to find. But this is not because the gate is purposely hidden, but because of the state of the rich person’s heart. The first thing that material wealth silences is the restlessness of the human heart that can find its rest only in God. Satisfaction with a life of luxury dulls the desire for the things that truly matter and that bring ultimate fulfillment to the human spirit. Riches, when not shared, become toxic and can put at risk one’s eternal destiny, for God and mammon cannot be served simultaneously (cf. Mt 6:24).
Prayer:
Lord Jesus, deliver us from the peril of becoming possessed by worldly possessions. Amen.