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 <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>our Gospel for today is Luke’s version of the Beatitudes</b></span>, less 
well-known than Matthew’s but actually punchier, more to the point. It 
all hinges on detachment, that decisively important spiritual attitude. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">Apatheia</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> in the Greek fathers, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">indifferencia</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">
 in Ignatius of Loyola. Spiritual detachment means that I am unattached 
to worldly values that become a substitute for the ultimate good of God.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">
</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">How
 bluntly Luke’s account puts things! <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Look at Luke’s first beatitude, a 
model for the rest: "Blessed are you poor; the reign of God is yours." 
</b></span>What if we translated this as<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>, "How lucky you are if you are not 
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">addicted to</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">material things."</span> </b></span>When we place material things in the 
center of our concerns, we find ourselves caught in an addictive 
pattern.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Because</span>
 material goods</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>don’t</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>satisfy</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the hunger in my soul</b></span>, I
convince myself that I need more of them to gain contentment. So I 
strive and work to get more nice things—cars, homes, TVs, clothes—and 
then I find that those don’t satisfy me. So I strive and strive, and the
 rhythm continues.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Therefore, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>how lucky I would be if I were poor, unattached to <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">material goods</span>, finally indifferent to <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">them</span>.</b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>

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