05/11/2022

Our Lord makes quite clear that money can be used with love but it must not become our master, our captivator in life. How many of our pastors today can truthfully repeat the words of St. Paul " I have known poverty and know how to be rich too". In this world of my generation many of us cannot remember the desperation of not knowing where the next meal is coming from but many of still do. The problem of peoples' hunger was solved immediately by Jesus' miracles of loaves and fishes. We are not told about the recipients next day meals.

Money is tainted but it is still a necessity for all lives. St Paul's gift from the Thessalonians is more important to him as an expression of their love for him than it is for its own sake. Money is tainted in the same way as the apple forbidden to Adam. Mankind has to use the things of this world in acknowledgement of the Love that is the source of our being and Mankind's first covenant, promise to God. "God saw that all his creation was Good". 

The tainted being of our humanity has been reborn in the Incarnation, Crucifixion and Resurrection which is the manifest opportunity to remove the taint of sin so that we might be a sacrifice of service pleasing to God. St Paul knows that God will care for him for he knows that in his own heart there is only one desire that is overwhelmingly important to him, to proclaim, love and serve the One who we have been shown is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord to be overcome by the things of this world is very easy for any of us. Success, Fame, Wealth are the only targets that are shouted out to us by the Mass Media. Please send the Holy Spirit to inspire the successors of St Peter and Paul, thy prelates, to completely divest themselves of all property and become wanderers showing to the world only the way truth and life mapped out for us. May Mary continue to share the maternal love she has for you and bring comfort to all the sick and dying of this world and within my own family.