ELEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

Saturday

Year II

Readings

First Reading
2 Chr 24:17–25

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 89:4–5, 29–30, 31–32, 33–34

Gospel
Mt 6:24–34

Meditation on Today’s Readings

Taken from the Vatican II Sunday and Weekday Missal
Written by Celia Sirois

“No one can serve two masters,” Jesus declares in today’s Gospel. “He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.” The short story from 2 Chronicles is a case in point. Torn between their priest and the princes of Judah, Joash and his people forsook the God of their fathers, ignored God’s prophets and slew Jehoiada’s son, Zechariah, in the temple court.

The word “mammon,” sometimes rendered as “money,” may be the key to Jesus’ meaning. It is derived from the Hebrew ‘mn,’ which means “trust.” Jesus’ words raise precisely that issue: in whom or in what will we put our trust? There is no doubt of Paul’s answer. Trusting the power of God, whose grace is always enough, he boasts of his weaknesses. He says, “I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ.” Are we?

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