Friends, all three of our readings Sunday speak of a primordial spiritual truth—namely, the need to detach oneself from the goods of the world. This has nothing to do with a hatred of the world or a puritanical spirituality of flight from the world; rather, it has to do with knowing how to wear the goods of the world lightly. These goods—wonderful as they are—all finally crumble, evanesce, and disappear; they are not our ultimate good, and we are not meant to cling to them as though they were.
Mass Readings
Reading 1 – Ecc 1:2; 2:21-23
Psalm – Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17
Reading 2 – Col 3:1-5, 9-11
Gospel – Lk 12:13-21