{"id":153183,"date":"2016-09-13T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/?p=153183"},"modified":"2016-09-13T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:16:00","slug":"25th-sunday-o-t-ross-reyes-dizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/25th-sunday-o-t-ross-reyes-dizon\/","title":{"rendered":"25th Sunday in O. T. (Ross Reyes Dizon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creative and wise search for the Kingdom<\/em><\/h3>\n

Jesus teaches us the creative and wise search first of the kingdom of God and his righteousness.<\/p>\n

Undoubtedly, the children of this world look for the power and glory of all the kingdoms of the world very shrewdly and in a creative way.\u00a0 To verify this, one only needs consider Amos\u2019 denunciations.<\/p>\n

Oppressors buy the lowly for silver, perhaps blatantly, and the poor for a pair of sandals.\u00a0 But they surely do not lack the creative imagination of deceivers.\u00a0 That is why, to hide their wickedness, they sell wheat, but mixed with the refuse of the wheat, and they use prices, though ridiculous and artificial, and measures and scales, albeit false.<\/p>\n

Or it is more helpful perhaps to point to the case of Wells Fargo.\u00a0 To add to its profits, it opened accounts for its customers without their permission.<\/p>\n

And what can we say of real estate developers who pay little or no taxes because their creative mind urges them to take advantage of legal loopholes?\u00a0 Admittedly, they are not at the same level as those who get rich by employing cheap labor illegally. Worse still is the scammer who not only cheats workers of their wages but also threatens the undocumented among them with deportation.<\/p>\n

There is no lack, of course, of Christians to whom the observation, \u201cThe children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light,\u201d does not apply.<\/h4>\n

These Christians understand that goods are means to something more important, as St. Vincent de Paul says (SV.EN XI:212-213, 223<\/a>).\u00a0 Hence, they are generous with their possessions.\u00a0 Instead of serving their possessions, they use them so that they may find welcome into the eternal dwellings.\u00a0 For them, possessions are insignificant in comparison to the kingdom that the Father gives them.\u00a0 So, they sell their possessions and give alms.\u00a0 They are trustworthy in very small matters and in great ones.<\/p>\n

They recognize besides that to accomplish God\u2019s works, they\u00a0 have to use the means he has revealed through Jesus (SV.EN II:432-433<\/a>; SV.EN III:192<\/a>).\u00a0 That is why they do not aspire to magnificent seat of power.\u00a0 They do not cry out, \u201cMy room, my books, my Mass!\u201d (SV.EN XI:190<\/a>).\u00a0 They are poor missionaries who go about doing good and they pray for everybody.<\/p>\n

Indeed, there are many disciples who are more interested in extending the kingdom of God than their own possessions (SV.EN III:527<\/a>). \u00a0And the questions that one must pose now are:\u00a0 Are we among these people?\u00a0 Am I not like the steward who, noting delay in his master\u2019s return, becomes abusive of his subordinates, eats and drinks, and gets drunk?\u00a0 When the Lord returns, will he find us vigilant, so that he may then have us recline at table and wait on us?<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, let not everything be burdensome to us, nor let us do things by halves (SV.EN III:222<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n

September 18, 2016
\n25th<\/sup> Sunday in O. T. (C)
\nAm 8, 4-7; 1 Tim 2, 1-8; Lk 16, 1-13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Importance The Constitutions give us a practical way of renewing community life: the Community Project. This can a very efficacious means for renewal if the members accept it as a \u201ccovenant.\u201d If by dialogue based on common experience we can arrive at greater unity of ideas and an expression\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Congregation of the Mission"","block_context":{"text":"Congregation of the Mission","link":"https:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/category\/the-vincentian-family\/branches\/congregation-of-the-mission\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/community-project.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/community-project.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/community-project.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/community-project.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/community-project.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":109708,"url":"https:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/seventeenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time-rosalino-reyes-dizon-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":153183,"position":4},"title":"Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Rosalino Reyes Dizon)","author":"Ross Reyes Dizon","date":"July 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"To be conformed to the image of his Son (Rom 8, 29) The wisest and most intelligent thing we can do is to seek the kingdom of God. That is because this kingdom represents all our best aspirations. 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