Feria

Friends in Christ,

Greetings to you all on this Tuesday Evening. I am writing this from ' way down under' New Zealand, so time-wise we are well ahead of the rest of the world. Can I share with you this evening the words from Blessed St.Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, chapter 9 , verse 9

and I quote
'For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.'

Our lives very much involve about either being rich or being poor. The society we live in is more materialistic then ever, the media presses us into obtaining things that we cannot really afford to have and that wont bring us that much pleasure after we have obtained them. As Catholic Christians, what do we make then of all this ?

We can be poor in the eyes of our Lord Jesus Christ in relation to what we refuse to give and what we want to keep for ourselves, is is not only money, but also service to others. But in the eyes of Jesus Christ we are indeed rich, but only through what we give.

As we are struggling with these concepts of having and having not, can these words this evening be a turning point for us when it comes to being Faithful Stewards of our talents and posessions?

I pray that it can be.

Thanks be to God.

In XC

Ed Bakker