Nineteenth Ordinary

Luke 12: 1 5

Jesus continued, “Be generous. Give to the poor. Get yourselves a bank that can’t go bankrupt, a bank in heaven far from bank robbers, safe from embezzlers, a bank you can bank on. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being”.

At Mass each week we say “we wait in joyful hope”. Often, joyful hope is not the state people are in when waiting. We wait in anger, anxiety, impatience, annoyance, resentment, or fear that somebody else is going to get what’s coming to us. What might you wait in joyful hope for?

• a holiday
• a pay bonus
• a visit from a loved one
• Christmas
• the opening of a much-anticipated movie
• the safe return of a loved one from the war?

We’re called to watch and wait. Ask your listeners to tell you without turning their heads to either side – what the person next to them is wearing. Without looking at any clues, what song did you sing for the entrance hymn? What is the colour of the car they’re parked next to? How much of life do you miss?