In this week's edition of There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye, Jill
Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Eighteenth
Sunday of the Year. Listen:
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12:13-21
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother
to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed
me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to
guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist
of possessions.”
Then he told them a parable. “There was a rich man whose
land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, ‘What shall I do, for
I do not have space to store my harvest?’ And he said, ‘This is what I shall do: I
shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain
and other goods and I shall say to myself, “Now as for you, you have so many
good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!”’ But God
said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the
things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’ Thus will it be for all who
store up treasure for themselves but are not rich in what matters to God.”