Sunday Readings: Wisdom 8.13-18; Philomen 9-10, 12-17; Luke 14.25-33
“None of you can be my disciple if you do not renounce all your possessions.”
(Luke 14.33)
Proclaiming the good news of God’s abundant loving kindness toward all people contradicts conventional wisdom that there is not enough love or anything else to go around, so it must be reserved for our own kind. Healing the sick free of charge, no matter who they are or where they live or how they got that way brings condemnation from those who despise the afflicted or aim to profit from their misery.
In his best paradoxical fashion, Jesus insists, “Less is more.” Possessions, however many, are never enough. The generous economics of discipleship turn accepted economic theories on their heads.
In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis writes, “Every ecological approach needs to incorporate a social perspective which takes into account the fundamental rights of the poor and underprivileged. The principle of the subordination of private property to the universal destination of goods, and the right of everyone to their use, is a golden rule of social conduct and ‘the first principle of the whole ethical and social order'” (#93).
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