[Grem] *****SPAM(5.2)***** Re: A mai nagyböjti szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, today’s Gospel focuses on the parable of the rich man and
Lazarus. The rich man "dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined
sumptuously each day," while lying at his door was a poor man named
Lazarus, "who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from
the rich man’s table. "
                 God is not pleased with this kind of economic inequality,
and he burns with a passion to set things right. This theme came roaring up
out of the Bible and into the Christian tradition, and it echoes up and
down the centuries. Even though it makes us uncomfortable—and God knows it
does, especially those of us who live in the most affluent society in the
world—we can’t avoid it because it’s everywhere in the Bible.
                                             St. Thomas Aquinas says that
we must distinguish between ownership and use of private property. We have
a right to ownership through our hard work, through our inheritance. Fair
enough. But with regard to the use of those things—how we use them, why we
use them—then, says Thomas, we must always be concerned first for the
common good and not our own. This especially includes Lazarus at our gate:
those who are suffering and most in need. Reflect: How do you understand
the "common good"? How do you use your personal property for that good? *

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