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The homily of Father Max - 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

"O God, the beginning and end of all things, that in Christ your Son you have called us to possess the kingdom, is' that operate with our efforts to subdue the earth and we allow ourselves to be dominated by greed and selfishness, but we always do what is before you. "
" All is vanity ... "
" If you were raised with Christ, seek what is above. Think about the things above, not on things on earth. "
" You fool, this night you will be prompted for your life. And what we have prepared, whose will it be? "

Qo 1.2, 2.21 to 23; Sal 89/90; Col 3,1-5.9-11; Luke 12.13-21

"So will who lays up treasure for himself and not God is enriched at " that blow!
" But I do not build for me - say a (good) father -, but for my children! I do not want to have to do the hard work that I did, I do not want to start from scratch, like son ... I had to leave. " There is nothing wrong to think so, sure, it would be important to work not only to provide a strong heritage to their children, but also to provide them a solid moral education: and among the moral qualities that a child must necessarily acquire, There are also the courage fatigue, honesty to earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, avoiding the temptation to get the maximum results with minimum effort, possibly along lanes ... you sound like a moralist? Maybe a little 'I have always been.

The ministry that I have done to promote vocations and to train me unfortunately confirmed the conviction that today, young people, selfishness is increasing at the expense of good will not speak again of this requirement for service for the common good, which is already a step further and involves faith. But this speech is beyond the present-day reflection on the Word of God, or rather, it is only a part. The theme for this Sunday is the true good of man , those whose worthwhile work seriously, and maybe even lose sleep ... In other words, it is building up the Kingdom of God . The last few Sundays I have already spoken of the Christian and human happiness, which in biblical terms is called just ' United of Heaven '.
Did you know that the most common cause of resentment is the division of inheritance ? So much so that even the applicant is dealing with the Gospel. Jesus cut short and he literally washes his hands: " O man, who a judge or mediator over you? . The sad part is that this issue affects not only the so-called rich families, it seems, indeed, that the less you have, the more you fight.

Money, material possessions can be a trap, in life and in death ... days ago I spoke of the alleged equivalence between wealth and happiness. Today is the turn of another alleged affair: the happiness and safety of the future. There is no doubt that safety is a value! We are reminded of an expert on moral issues, Silvano Petrosino, in his interesting, and already quoted essay " Tips - the house is not a den and the economy is not the business . But the desire for security, for ourselves and our loved ones, can become an obsession. According to the Christian logic, the search for safety can fatally sanctioning the loss of faith, faith understood as the abandonment to the providence of God in the certain hope that He will never miss its assistance, especially in difficulties.

There are psychological aspects related to security even come into conflict with the presuppositions of Christian faith. Faith is not fact, combined with the certainty of a truth held in a stable and permanent, but never finished with the search of the truth of God, a truth, that of God, which can not be held fully and definitively, even in eternal life.
safety, above all, difficult to reconcile with the dynamics of progress, another important element of the Christian faith. Paradoxically, the desire for security may lead to fall back on smaller projects on our potential, to avoid the risk of 'fly' above our abilities. While avoiding mistakes and disappointments, many men and women are content to achieve mediocre results, producing mediocre design, mediocre and collecting fruits ... There is a Venetian proverb that says: " Pochet, but sicureti! "... What an ugly word 'settle '!
Who can deny that, in the name of a legitimate need for security, man has often ended up not build a house, but a tower, or worse, a prison, a den, and sometimes even a grave, giving life to an economy based on indifference to the next, and the demands of justice? Here's another

keyword the Word of God this Sunday XVIII: indifference!
He speaks in several parables in the Gospel: the most famous is that of rich man, who sumptuous feast with friends and did not notice Lazarus, a poor man sitting outside the door of his house, so poor, but so poor that even the dogs approached to lick their wounds ... The conclusion we know it: a happy ending for the poor Lazarus and the rich stranger to eternal damnation. God does not recognize the rich. But the poor! and even calls them by name ... I mean, I'm always in his thoughts, always subject of his care, never strays from them. And after death, when he finally can act undisturbed, without obstacles che gli uomini sempre pongono alla (Sua) provvidenza, Dio premia i poveri con la pace e la gioia eterna . Gesù dichiara che “ i poveri li abbiamo sempre con noi e possiamo beneficarli quando vogliamo ” (cfr. Mt 26,6-13 e passi paralleli). Altra questione – il servizio ai poveri – che non può essere disgiunta dalla ricerca della propria sicurezza.

Come vedete, la fiducia nella Provvidenza - la fede – e l’attenzione ai bisogni degli altri – la carità – sono due facce della stessa medaglia, come ci insegnano i due comandamenti dell’amore per Dio e (dell’amore) per il prossimo; anzi, dell’ amore a Dio nel servizio to the next, according to the equally famous ruling of the Final Judgement, which the evangelist Matthew cap.25 ranks, not surprisingly, as the final teaching of Jesus, before tackling the Passion. The parable ends with an addition to today's editorial moralizing flavor: the only way to redeem in the eyes of God, the possession of the property, is to circulate them, distributing them equitably to others, to the poor.

Who thought that the Gospel has nothing to say to the strategists in the international economy has not understood the deeper meaning of the Gospel. There is no satisfaction nell'addurre reasons to boast of the Gospel and Holy Scripture But in general ... if necessary - see you! - Just mention the Beatitudes and the Acts of the Apostles: History attests that was not the state, but the first church to listen to the voice of the disenfranchised and generally of lower social classes. This is said to those who control the fate of the world ... but also some representatives of the Church, which sometimes seem to have forgotten its origins.

"the poison of the snake is jealousy: jealous
who is suspected suspect who does not believe ... .."