Consider This

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Bishop Barron

Second Week of Lent
Luke 16:19–31 
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.

What Do We Worship?

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I worship God first

It seems that about 80% or more people approve of the new administrations efforts to make our government spend less, shrink its size, and make it more transparent and accountable. It is beyond me that some people do not support that, especially when we are 36 trillion dollars in debt. The interest alone on that debt is one trillion dollars a year, plus that debt is causing rampant inflation.

I see the response from the Leftists/Democrats regarding this, and it looks like violence, destruction, hatred, more lawfare, and wars. They lost the last election by a landslide because their agenda was rejected by voters.

It looks like one side worships freedom and the other side worships government.

Know your enemy and choose sides carefully.