[Grem] Today's Gospel meditation - (not St.Stephen's day's gospel's)

[Emoke Greschik]

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Your daily Gospel reflection...
*Monday, August 20, 2018*
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Memorial of Saint Bernard

Matthew 19:16-22







*Friends, today’s Gospel is the story of the rich young man. The rich young
man has a deep desire to share in everlasting life. He is hungry for the
infinite good of the spirit. He knows what he wants, and he knows where to
find it. Jesus is the infinite Good that the soul wants. He is God’s own
self made flesh. If you want to live in friendship with God, there are
certain things that you must cut out of your life. Friendship with God
means a life of love; therefore, those things that egregiously violate love
have to be eliminated. Jesus looks at him with love and says, “There is one
thing more you must do. Go and sell what you have and give it to the poor;
you will have treasure in heaven. After that come follow me.” God is
nothing but love, straight through, and therefore the life of friendship
with him, in the richest sense, is a life of total, self-forgetting love.
But at this point the young man tragically balks. The spiritual life, at
the highest pitch, is about giving your life away, and this is why his many
possessions are a problem. *
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