Seek the Things that are in Heaven
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk 12:13-21)
 The story that I used in my sermon last week, I was told, was very appropriate.  So, again I begin with a story from Tony de Mello:
 
“What stone?” asked the sage.
“Last night I was told in a dream that if I went to the outskirts of the village at dusk, a sage would give me a stone that would make me rich forever.”
The sage rummaged in his sack and, pulling out a stone, he said, “Your dream probably referred to this one. I found it in the forest yesterday. Here, it’s yours if you want it.”
The man gazed at the stone in wonder. It was the largest diamond in the world—the size of a man’s head.
All night he tossed about in bed. At break of day he woke the […]

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Who do you say I am?
Who am I?  This is the question that we all start asking consciously right from the age of reason. But it has its beginnings perhaps even earlier, as infants when we are weaned and begin to walk, becoming independent and separate from the mother.  This identity question becomes even more acute during adolescence at the threshold of becoming adults.  I am not too sure what it could mean for the elderly.  As I live through my 40’s I see certain serenity come over me as I ask myself: Who am I? The feeling about that question is unlike it was in my teens and twenties, and even in my thirties.
In answering the question of ‘who am I’ we rely on the help of others.  Basically we define […]

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