Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Treasures of Heaven

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 6.23.23 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Matthew 6:19-23

Friends, in today’s Gospel,
Jesus tells his disciples not to store up treasures for themselves on earth
but to store up treasures in heaven,
“where neither moth nor decay destroys,
nor thieves break in and steal.”

St. Augustine once said that since every creature is made ex nihilo,
it carries with it the heritage of nonbeing.
There is a kind of penumbra or shadow of nothingness
that haunts every finite thing.

This is a rather high philosophical way of stating what all of us know in our bones:
no matter how good, beautiful, true, or exciting a thing or state of affairs is here below,
it is destined to pass into nonbeing.
Think of a gorgeous firework that bursts open like a giant flower
and then,
in the twinkling of an eye, is gone forever. Everything is haunted by nonbeing;
everything, finally, is that firework.

But this is not meant to depress us;
it is meant to redirect our attention precisely to the treasures of heaven,
to the eternity of God.
Once we see everything in light of God,
we can learn to love the things of this world
without clinging to them and without expecting too much of them.
Think of how much disappointment and heartache could be avoided
if we only learned this truth!

[MurphsLaw]

+++Jesus said to his disciples:
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.
But store up treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor decay destroys,
nor thieves break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

“The lamp of the body is the eye.
If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light;
but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness.
And if the light in you is darkness,
how great will the darkness be.”+++

[No name given]

Amen 🙏🏻!!!!

[beethovenfan]

Jesus, after telling the parable of the unjust steward : “And I tell you, make friends
for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that WHEN IT FAILS, they may welcome you into the everlasting habitations.” Luke 16:9

Make no mistake, money is going to fail and the the time may be close. Use it to
build your eternal account in heaven.

[MurphsLaw]

I don't know...
Time maybe close for the decline and fall of America...
But it's a big ol' world out there... and they ain't done just yet.