October 22, 2018
Monday
29th Week in
Ordinary Time
1st Reading: Eph 2:1–10Gospel:
Luke 12:13-21
Someone in the crowd spoke to Jesus, “Master, tell my brother to share with me the family inheritance.” He replied, “My friend, who has appointed me as your judge or your attorney?” Then Jesus said to the people, “Be on your guard and avoid every kind of greed, for even though you have many possessions, it is not that which gives you life.”And Jesus continued with this story, “There was a rich man and his land had produced a good harvest. He thought: ‘What shall I do? For I am short of room to store my harvest.’ So this is what he planned: ‘I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones to store all this grain, which is my wealth. Then I may say to myself: My friend, you have a lot of good things put by for many years. Rest, eat, drink and enjoy yourself.’ But God said to him: ‘You fool! This very night your life will be taken from you; tell me who shall get all you have put aside?’ This is the lot of the one who stores up riches instead of amassing for God.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
Blessings are indications that God wants to appoint a person as his channel of distribution of grace to the less fortunate. Being blessed means being designated as such channels. God needs good channels because he cannot always give his blessings directly to everyone. He wouldn’t do it to the lazy because dole out is an insult to human dignity. Neither will he do it on those who will just squander all the blessings on vices in one day. God needs honest, responsible, hardworking, and generous people to become his channels of distribution of Divine Providence.
When such persons, after being amply blessed, refuse the appointment as channels of divine Providence because they just want to spend the blessings for their exclusive enjoyment, they become clogged channels and the flow of God’s grace to the world is disturbed. The poor suffers the most because they are at the receiving end of the chain. When the poor cries our to God for help, God will soon discover the refusal of the appointment. He then withdraws the blessings and the formerly blessed persons are left to themselves to earn their money by the sweat of their brow.
This system of appointment of channels of distribution of grace is in keeping with the principle of stewardship. We are not absolute owners of the fruits of our labor; we are mere stewards of material windfall. We are blessed so that we may become blessings to others. In this way grace keeps flowing. With this arrangement God’s Providence is put to work in our midst. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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