June 18, 2016 Saturday 11th Week in Ordinary Time 1st Reading: 2 Chr 24: 17-25 Gospel: Mt 6:24–34
Jesus said to his disciples, “No one can serve two masters; for he will either hate one and love the other, or he will be loyal to the first and look down on the second. You cannot at the same time serve God and money.“This is why I tell you not to be worried about food and drink for yourself, or about clothes for your body. Is not life more important than food and is not the body more important than clothes?
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow, they do not harvest and do not store food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than birds? “Can any of you add a day to your life by worrying about it? Why are you so worried about your clothes? Look at the flowers in the fields how they grow. They do not toil or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his wealth was clothed like one of these. If God so clothes the grass in the field which blooms today and is to be burned tomorrow in an oven, how much more will he clothe you? What little faith you have!
“Do not worry and say: What are we going to eat? What are we going to drink? Or: what shall we wear? The pagans busy themselves with such things; but your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. Set your heart first on the kingdom and justice of God and all these things will also be given to you. Do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
Harold Camping, a leader of a U.S. based religious sect predicted that the world was to end May 21, 2011. It did not. In 2012 people were warned that the world was to end December 12. It did not. The end of the world had been predicted many times, and people still worry each time they hear of similar unconfirmed predictions.
“Worrying is an attempt to live both the present and the future” (Anonymous). But the attempt always leads to futility because one can’t be in two time frames at the same time. While “bi-location” may be possible, “bi-temporation” is not. Chiara Lubich likens worriers to a train passenger running to the front wagon to get to the destination ahead of the train. There is no way one can disengage the self from the cadence of time to get to tomorrow ahead of the present. The blue tooth technology to dispatch oneself to the future is yet to be invented.
The world will end but we don’t know when. But this we know: the world will end well for who live the present moment. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email:dan.delosangeles@gmail.com.
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