Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time • Year C
What are your possessions all about? Think for a moment and take it to prayer. Where does your treasure lie? Is it in our relationship to God? Is it in unhealthy relationships that distract us from God? Or is it in good relationships that bring us closer to him? Do we dream about having more things in our lives or are they becoming distractions to the greatest gift of all: the love of God?
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time • Year B
How do we start to make the needed changes that allow God to transform us? St. Paul reminds us to be courageous. Even surrounded by a world of hate and war, we can remain faithful if we “walk by faith, not by sight.” We do not know where God is leading us, but we trust by faith that he will never abandon us and always be our shepherd. We can’t see the details of the future but we can keep close to God when we trust in the promise of eternal life. The lack of human sight does not mean we do not have spiritual sight, or faith itself. Faith is the fuel when we do not have human sight.