From the responsorial psalm: “In her will I make a horn to sprout forth for David; I will place a lamp for my anointed. His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon him my crown shall shine.” The Lord has chosen Zion for his dwelling.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 6:19-23)
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.”
Whether it is things or people or concepts, what we most treasure, Jesus says, tells us where our heart is. Then Jesus tells us not to store up the things that can be destroyed, like things or people or ideas. Instead, provide and pile up treasures that belong in heaven and can’t be destroyed. That is where your heart should be, Jesus says. Soundness of sight is how we see what to store up. “The lamp of the body is the eye,” Jesus says. “If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light; but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.” Throughout the day, what treasures will we see that are truly worth storing up?
God, help me see today the things of this world with an eye that is sound and heart that is filled with your light. The light that I would be filled with is your grace and nothing less. Please supply this. Help me see things in the light of truth, Lord, so that my heart is in treasures that last and ultimately reset in you. Saint Aloysius, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.