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TWENTY-NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Monday
Year I
Readings
First Reading
Rom 4:20–25
Responsorial Psalm
Lk 1:69–70, 71–72, 73–75
Gospel
Lk 12:13–21
Meditation on Today’s Readings Taken from
the Vatican
II Sunday and Weekday Missal
Written by Celia Sirois
Commenting on today’s Gospel, Luke
Timothy Johnson notes how astutely Luke has grasped the function
of possessions in human life.* Luke seems to
know that greed expresses fear, a massive insecurity that seeks
to secure life with many possessions. The only way to dispel such
fear is to recognize that life is a gift from the living God, a
gift that no amount of material possessions can gain or guarantee.
The man in the parable is a fool because he thinks that having insured
his many possessions, he has secured his life “for many years.”
For Paul writing to the Romans, Abraham
is the paradigm of the person of faith who accepts God’s promise
of life as a gift, never questioning or doubting it and never trying
to secure it by his own power or possessions. Such faith relies
rather on what Ephesians describes as “the immeasurable riches
of [God’s] grace in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.”
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