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2024 Homilies
7-14
He instructed them to take nothing for the journey:
No car, no credit card, no suitcase, no cellphone.
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It's good to do this little bit of translation, to understand exactly what Jesus is saying.
And then it's good to do a little more:
Jesus is asking them, to do what he already did.
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When Jesus began his ministry, he started with forty days in the desert.
He went to the desert, with just the clothes on his back and a walking stick.
No food, no luggage, no money.
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He almost died in that desert, that should be clear to us. Forty days without food is no picnic.
After those forty days, Jesus began his ministry: he didn't go home to resupply: he went to Galilee, living on the kindness of friends and strangers.
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So Jesus is asking the Apostles, to do as he did, to leave behind worldly possessions, and trust in God completely.
And he does this again later on, when he sends out the seventy-two in the same way.
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As we have in other places in the Gospel, there is an explicit rejection of materialism and consumerism by God.
We find true comfort and security in God, not in houses and cars and keeping up with the Joneses.
In fact, we see Jesus not only give the example, but again and again recommend voluntary poverty.
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The question we are faced with today, is how can we become more impoverished?
Normally, I'd like to give some examples to have a place to start, but in this case, it's something you need to work out with God.
God called St Francis of Assissi to give up everything.
He called St Elizabeth of Hungary to use her great wealth to build houses for religious orders, and fund charitable works, all while living a very simple life when out of the public eye.
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Make no mistake, God will never call you to live a life of comfort and security, He will call you to give everything away in one way or another, so that you may learn to trust completely, in Him.
6-23
This passage of the Gospel is one that makes it clear, that the followers of Christ, should be bold.