COMMENTARY XXV READINGS SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME. CYCLE C 1 st Reading: Amos 8: 4-7
Listen to this, which exprimís the poor, the wretched despojáis, saying: 'When will the new moon, to sell the wheat, and Saturday to deliver the grain? "Disminuís far, aumentáis the price, you use scales to cheat, you buy for the money to the poor, the wretched by a pair of sandals, selling to the wheat bran. Jura the Lord for the glory of Jacob will never forget your actions.
PSALM 112: Praise the Lord, who lifts the poor.
2 nd Reading: I Timothy 2, 1-8
Dear brother, I pray thee therefore, first of all, you do, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for all men, for kings and all who are in the world, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all devotion and decorum. That is good and acceptable in the eyes of our Savior, God, who desires all men to be saved and come to know the truth. For God is one and only one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all: this is the testimony at the right time: for I put him as a preacher and an apostle - I tell the truth, not lying - a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. Taking the men pray everywhere, lifting up their hands clean of anger and division.
Gospel: Luke 16: 1-13
At that time, Jesus told his disciples: "A rich man had a steward, and he received the complaint that I wasted his goods. Then I called him and said: "What is it that you tell me? Give me the balance of your management, because it is fired. The manager began to take its calculations: What I do now that my master I removed the job? I have no strength to dig, to beg I am ashamed. I know what I will do so, when I kicked out of the administration, find out who welcome me into their home. It was called one by one to the debtors of his master and said the first, How much do you owe my master? He replied: One hundred barrels of oil. He said: Here's your receipt, quick, sit down and write fifty. Then he said to another: And how much do you "He replied: One hundred bushels of wheat. He said: Here's your receipt, write eighty. And the master commended the unjust steward, for the cunning with which he proceeded. Certainly, children of this world are more astute its people that the children of light.
And I say to win friends with money unjust, so that when it fails they may receive you into everlasting habitations. Which is often unreliable as it is important also in trustworthy, who does not is often not honest in how important is honored. If you have not been trustworthy with the vile money, who will trust you really worth? If you have not been trustworthy with what belongs to another, did yours, who will give it you? No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the first and will ignore the latter. You can not serve God and money. "
cunning and sagacity PARA LAS COSAS DE DIOS
Una vez más trata el Señor de atraer nuestro corazón hacia Él y hacia los bienes eternos que Él nos promete. El dinero y los bienes terrenos reclaman constantemente nuestra preocupación y anhelo y, cuando nos entregamos a ellos, estamos convirtiéndonos en esclavos, esclavos del dinero y de las cosas. Dios quiere que seamos libres, y sólo sirviéndole a Él, que es la fuente de la libertad y que nos da todo lo suyo, que es infinito, gozaremos de auténtica libertad.
Jesús quiere que advirtamos esta disyuntiva: o Dios o el dinero. Y que no nos engañemos. Que comprendamos que no se puede servir a ambos señores. To do so, gives us the parable of the Unjust Steward. Parable is not easy to explain, since concludes with a compliment from an injustice. Thus St. Augustine asks: "Why has proposed the Lord this parable? Not because the servant that he had committed a fraud, but because it was sighted for the future, to be ashamed of the Christian who lacks determination to see praise to the genius of a fraud. " (Sermon 359 A)
is the teaching that Jesus trying to convey. At no time justifies the fraudulent conduct of the unjust steward, but it makes emphasize its concern to ensure life and property, and the sagacity and cunning to get it. We are certainly resourceful and creative when it comes to garner material goods, fame, applause ... even when, as the unjust steward, we jeopardize our survival or comfort. Hence, that of "intellectus apretatus, rabiat discurret that."
wish we had your heart set on God so that we might as well of crafty and cunning to live and spread the Gospel! Thus, St. Augustine concludes the sermon above: "The unjust steward was concerned life has a purpose and do not worry you for eternity? ". is, therefore, this parable, incisive call to faith and a strong exhortation to the attainment of heavenly. God wants our thinking, our will and our actions are driven by the eternal goods, for the Good Lord, who is Him So, God is our Lord.
San Pablo is known and true servant of God, all his words and example are a continuous sample of the dominion of God in their lives. Recommends Timothy to turn your life in a look at the top, praying and asking God for all mankind, "For God is one and one only the mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all. "
And to the extent that we find in God our wealth, we will not care so much about material goods and be better able to serve and help the poor and needy. Indeed, the living detached from money, you can easily give alms, away from that sentence that tells the prophet Amos in the first reading and that will weigh on you idolize money, no act of injustice and serve God. Let
servants, not money, but of God, like Mary, the Servant of the Lord.
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