Matthew 6:24-34 Reflection ~
Before Covid, each year after Easter Mass, our extended family gathers to create new memories. Our children, nieces, and nephews are now all adults to still look forward to seeking and following the clues that let them collect tiny treasures inside Easter eggs. For one day, they do not worry, abandoning cares and concerns to maximize the happiness of having fun together. For this long moment, the Spirit enlightens beauty inside each one of them more than a casual eye can see. I look forward to silently devoting my Holy Saturday to prayer, taking a turn for each of them while hiding the clues for these pieces of joy around the yard.
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Additional Ordinary Time Reflections
Matthew 6:24-34 – Scripture (NRSV Bible)
Serving Two Masters
24 “No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? 28 And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.
30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
34 “So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
Additional Thoughts
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Prayer for young families:
Lord, let the young families of our communities get to know your joy, peace, comfort, and love despite the world’s distractions.
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