Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries. Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, your gold and silver have corroded, and that corrosion will be a testimony against you; it will devour your flesh like a fire. Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. (Jas 5:1-6)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022422.cfm
Material success is no gauge of spiritual success. The so-called “prosperity gospel” is a lie, it is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. The writer of the Letter of James reminds us that God sees the world and everyone in it through different eyes and with different values. Justice is not optional. We pray for Ukraine.
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Thursday, Week VII, Ordinary Time
