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32nd
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Visitors
to some fast-food restaurants will routinely be
asked if they want to ‘super-size’
their order where for a little more, they can,
get larger portions.
Many
a person fundraising wishes that such a method
was possible for them. Still, charitable donation
is on the rise. However, we sometimes need to
look more, at what we have left for ourselves,
after we give.
Those
who give out of their abundance still have abundance
left. And that’s a problem. In a strange
way, when you’re poor, the inclination to
be generous is stronger. A little money more in
your pocket won’t make a lot of difference
when you don’t have much. But when you possess
a lot, you never learn the answer to the question
‘how much is enough?’
Much can sometimes want more. Are we dependent
on our money to give us all we want and need from
life, or are we dependant on God to make us rich?
The
widow of the Gospel’s mite (less than a
penny), a jar of meal and a jug of oil of the
widow in the first reading, aren’t much
in terms of the stock exchange. In terms of faith,
they are absolutely everything. And who knows,
in the end after all, an angel of the Lord may
stand before us as we bring the gift of our lived
life to God and you too may be asked
‘Do
you want to super size that?’
Copyright: Fr. Tom Cox (Intercom)
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