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    Mo Nguyen
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                PARABLE OF THE RICH FOOL

     

                       EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME / C     

                                               04 AUGUST 2019

                            REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (Luke 12: 13-21)

                                           TRUE AND FALSE SECURITY

    We human beings are very insecure creatures. We are afraid for the future and, in that fear, desperately clutch at what would seem to offer protection and security against all manner of threats.

    Wealth seems to offer the most obvious of security: with wealth we shall not go hungry, we shall have a roof over our heads; we shall gain influence and power, the likelihood of good health, and the enjoyment of life’s better things.

    But the deep fear that feeds our insecurity also feeds the desire for wealth, so that the desire itself can become insatiable and eventually take over our lives, making us increasingly insensitive and to other, deeper values.

    The parable in today’s Gospel addresses this issue. The rich landowner, whose chief problem was finding space for his harvest, thought he could look forward to many years of the good life because of all the ‘security’ he thought he had stored up.

    But, ‘this very the demand is made for his ‘soul’ – that is, for his worth as a human being, a prequisite for eternal life. It is exactly this deeper question that the man’s preoccupation with his wealth has caused him to neglect.

    The only security that is really lasting consists in being ‘rich’ in one’s relationship with God, because this is the only relationship that transcends death.

    But a preoccupation with wealth also poisons human relationships, and erodes the concern for others that is the basis of community. Attachment to wealth in this sense is incompatible with living, sharing and celebrating the hospitality of God.

    Brendan Byrne, SJ

    #1431- Parable Of The Rich Fool - (Luke 12:13-21):

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              Be thankful for what you have

     

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