Sean Patrick Lovett offers a reading of this week's Sunday Gospel taken from St. Mathew. Mt.
6:24-34 Jesus said to his disciples: “No one can serve two masters. He will
either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You
cannot serve God and mammon. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what
you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more
than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky; they
do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds
them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you by worrying add a
single moment to your life-span? Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from
the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that
not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. If God so
clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will
he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? So do not worry and say,
‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’or ‘What are we to wear?’ All
these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But
seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will
be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient
for a day is its own evil.”