September 19 - Friday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(1Tm.6:2-12; Ps.49:6-10,17-20,Mt.5:3; Lk.8:1-3) “Those who want to be rich are falling into temptation, and a trap.” Today we hear Paul’s famous words: “The love of money is the root of all evil.” They are oft-quoted, but how well are they understood and practiced in the avoidance of excessive possessions and inflated bank accounts. Paul tells us, verifiably so, that men “have come to grief amid great pain” because of their passion for money. And the pain is so much the greater if they had been men of faith, which stands so much in opposition to the things of this world. One must be “content…
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