June 21, 2014
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 religious sect based in the United States predicted May 21, 2011as the end of the world. It did not. Believers of Camping are still encamped in this particular niche of the past, playing it safe because of the margin of error tolerable in cosmic forecasts. They are like residents of the present but dwellers of the past and domiciles of the future. Chiara Lubich compares those who attempt to live the present and the future simultaneously to a train passenger who runs to the first wagon because he is in a hurry to arrive even ahead of the train.
A well lived present makes a wonderful past for history. The good past we sow is the good future we reap because history repeats itself. The future may bring threatening circumstances beyond our control. But the fact that these are not within our control means that they are in God’s. In faith we live the present moment: not as residents of the present who are at the same time dwellers of the past and domiciles of the future but as builders of God’s kingdom today. – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Website: www.frdan.org.
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