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[Emoke Greschik]

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Your daily Gospel reflection...
*Friday, June 22, 2018*
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Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

Matthew 6:19-23




*Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples not to store up
treasures for themselves on earth, but to store up treasures in heaven,
"where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal."
St. Augustine once said that since every creature is made ex nihilo, it
carries with it the heritage of non-being. There is a kind of penumbra or
shadow of nothingness that haunts every finite thing. This is a rather high
philosophical way of stating what all of us know in our bones: no matter
how good, beautiful, true, or exciting a thing or state of affairs is here
below, it is destined to pass into non-being. Think of a gorgeous firework
that bursts open like a giant flower and then, in the twinkling of an eye,
is gone forever. Everything is haunted by non-being; *everything, finally,
is that firework.

*But this is not meant to depress us; it is meant to redirect our attention
precisely to the treasures of heaven, to the eternity of God. Once we see
everything in light of God, we can learn to love the things of this world
without clinging to them and without expecting too much of them. Think of
how much disappointment and heartache could be avoided if we only learned
this truth!*
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