Justice Reflections From Fr. Claude Mostowik
Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year
Luke is relentless and provocative in dealing with wealth and our proper relationship with wealth. Prosperity or abundance theology, that continues today, points to material wealth as a sign of God’s blessing and a negative judgment on poverty as was the case in biblical times. There is also the view that suffering in the present will later be compensated. Each view gives all power to God who decides the material wellbeing of people and thus exonerates us from responsibility for others. Jesus makes clear that God clearly sides with the poor, unimportant, broken and of no economic or social importance.
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Read moreJustice Reflections From Fr. Claude Mostowik
Twenty Fifth Sunday of the Year
We are a shrewd lot in this world
If there is a buck to be made
We will make it
If there is power to be gained
We will gain it
If there is a way to come out on top
We will damn the ones below
As we climb
We are a shrewd lot in this world
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