Today’s Readings – Sunday of Week 19 of Ordinary Time (Year C)

Commentary on Wisdom 18:6-9; Hebrews 11:1-2,8-19; Luke 12:32-48

Where your treasure is, there will be your heart be also.


We continue today with the theme of last Sunday’s Mass. There we heard a parable Jesus told about a man who made a great deal of money and was very happy with himself:

...I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry. (Luke 12:19)

But God said to him:

You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?
(Luke 12:20)

And, when that man died and went before his God, what had he to offer? All that stuff in his barns? No, all that had to be left behind for others. When my turn comes to face my God and he asks me what I have and I resp … Continue

Yesterday’s Readings – Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), Virgin and Martyr

Edith Stein was born on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement (12 October, 1891), in Breslau, Silesia, (now Wroclaw, Poland).  She was the youngest of 11 children in a devout Jewish family.  When she was not yet two years old her father died suddenly, leaving Edith’s mother to raise … Continue