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Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Mk 10/17-30 |
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| Background: It is useful to consider when we reflect on today's gospel that even those who are not affluent in America today, enjoy a life style that even the richest kings would not have dreamed possible even a century ago. We may be stressed out and overworked, but we live in luxury hitherto undreamed of. Why doesn't it make us happy. That's the challenge of todays gospel, to seek our happiness in other things besides a new car, a new TV, a new vacation, a new home, a new set of china, new cameras. These do-dads are not wrong, but they won't make us happy. When we become obsessed with their care and maintenance we lose our hold on happiness. It's not that we reject Jesus's invitation to generosity. We don't even hear it. |
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Story: Once upon a time there was a little boy who liked to play marbles, as do all little boys. This young man, whose name was Adelbert, was a very good marble player. In fact, he was devastating. He won every marble match during the whole month of October and cleaned out all his friends. Pretty soon he was the only one in his school who had any marbles left. Then the other kids bought more marbles and came back to take on Adelbert again. He cleaned them out a second time. He put all his marbles in great big bags and poured them out on the floor of his family's recreation room and then put them back in the bags. His mother said, Adie, why are you so obsessed with the marbles. Because they are so beautiful, he said, his eyes glowing. The other kids came back with more marbles for a third round. Adelbert refused to play any more. He was too busy admiring all he had won to enjoy the game. I have all the marbles I need, he told the others. It's more fun to just look at my big bags of marbles than to waste my time playing with you drips |
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