Readings of the day: RB 18:7-11
Mass: 2 Ch 24:17-25; Resp Ps 89; Mt 6:24-34
Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns,
yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
I think of dear Sr Antoinette of happy memory. Some 18 years ago we were sitting quietly gazing out her office window appreciating the view. In her matter of fact way, Sr Antoinette spoke: ‘Look at that chestnut tree there. It is doing just what God wants it to do.’ I have never forgotten that and recall it now as I gaze out my window looking at majestic redwoods and other growing things—all doing just what God wants them to do. Heavenly Father, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
A spirituality which forgets God as all-powerful and Creator is not acceptable. That is how we end up worshipping earthly powers, or ourselves usurping the place of God, even to the point of claiming an unlimited right to trample his creation underfoot. The best way to restore men and women to their rightful place, putting an end to their claim to absolute dominion over the earth, is to speak once more of the figure of a Father who creates and who alone owns the world. Otherwise, human beings will always try to impose their own laws and interests on reality.
(Laudato Si, 75)
Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself.
Sufficient for a day is its own evil.
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