Father Sean's Weekly Message
September 21, 2025
“’Make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth.' What are we to make of this puzzling phrase? Jesus teaches us to have a proper disposition to temporal wealth. We must not seek from wealth a happiness it is not able to provide, nor make use of it for illicit gain-like those who cannot wait for the chance to 'buy the lowly for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals.' Perhaps the first time those merchants 'fixed their scales for cheating' it seemed to them a very small matter. But 'the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in great ones.' Fortunately, the one Master, Jesus Christ, 'gave himself as ransom for all.' With hands lifted up in holy prayer, we become those trustworthy people to whom God entrusts great things. By using wealth properly, as a means for the necessary goods of life and for works of charity, we act as prudent stewards and prepare for an eternal dwelling." (Magnificat, September 2025, pg. 305)
~ Continued on Father Sean's Pastor's Corner