PRIEST: The Word of God for us today challenges us about who it is we really serve! Where are our priorities – the ambition for money, easy life-style, and power? Or the building of a world shared equally by all? Greed is not the preserve of the rich… we can all allow greed for more to distort our lives. At a time when there is so much war and killing, so much poverty and injustice, we ask ourselves how many of our resources – time, prayer, money – do we put to the Mission of the Gospel and the building of peace and justice. So let us reflect on how we respond to Christ’s call to greater honesty and integrity in all our dealings; Christ’s call to a simpler life-style and a life of that offers the world an alternative, and better Way…
READER: When we put more energy into money and property
than we do for people and relationships
LORD HAVE MERCY…
When we compromise our Gospel values of justice and charity
for the sake of our own gain and ambitions
CHRIST HAVE MERCY…
When we live with little regard for the poorest of our communities;
when we accept laws and policies that oppress
the already downtrodden
LORD HAVE MERCY…
PRIEST: May the God of Justice purify our hearts;
may Jesus come to us in the poverty of His forgiveness;
may the Holy Spirit inspire us to choose with God
the Mission to serve the poorest,
and so bring us to everlasting life…
AMEN!