The texts today in the Roman Catholic Lectionary invite some study. Fr Larry Gillick SJ advises that the Gospel should be taken in the context of Luke’s Gospel theme of learning to live wisely with the gifts of God for us. He suggests that the distribution of wealth was an important message of Luke in contrast to the ‘wisdom’ of accumulating wealth. The ‘long term’ wealth for which we strive will prove to be fleeting and the friends who have a life in communion with the Divine will be there when the materialism disappoints. The psalmist praises the preference of the Lord for the poor who will be raised up. Paul exhorts the believers to continue to pray for those in leadership that the peace of prayer will encourage them to support a peaceful existence for all. Fr Larry recommends that Amos accounting of the failure of Israel by viewed in the context of his full mission of prophesy to Israel. A troubling impatience of modern times appears to be not to seek the full context of the events and issues in our lives. This impatience may be at the heart of the misunderstanding between Western attitude and the culture of other, often aboriginal, cultures.
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