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10/19/26 Stuff-Mart · Omnia Christus

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  SPEAKER_00: When I hear this gospel,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm always reminded of my priest friend who has lots of first edition books,
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  SPEAKER_00: who likes books, collects lots of books.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he was in his house and he was,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think he was,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: sort of it was the evening,
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  SPEAKER_00: maybe he was going to bed and he was looking at all his books and he was like,
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  SPEAKER_00: hi, you know, I think I need bigger bookshops to keep all of my books.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was like, oh, no, you know, because he remembered this gospel, Gary.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, I'm doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all do it to some extent, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We all want to accumulate things and then build bigger shelves,
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  SPEAKER_00: bigger spaces to have more things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it doesn't lead us to happiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God's in this gospel not even saying that it's wrong to have things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the interesting part right at the beginning.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's not saying we can't have material things,
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  SPEAKER_00: but he's saying be careful where your heart is.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you remember the Beatitudes,
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ doesn't say blessed are the poor, but he says blessed are the poor in spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the most important thing is that we have a poverty of heart,
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  SPEAKER_00: that our heart doesn't become filled with attachment to things,
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  SPEAKER_00: with attachment to all these things that we have and we're worrying about them
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  SPEAKER_00: and our heart can get cluttered up with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it's very important.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very important to be careful about that, to think about the things that we have.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've talked about it before.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're all given to us on trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't actually own anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're stewards.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've been entrusted with things from God.
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  SPEAKER_00: They didn't come from us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We didn't make them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're going to have to hand them back.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to have to make an account for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to have to say what we did with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to be in the situation of this man in this gospel sooner or later.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then God's going to ask us, you know, what did you do with that?
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  SPEAKER_00: What was all of that for?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why were you putting all of your effort and attention into that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why were you spending so much time thinking about that?
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  SPEAKER_00: What did it really matter from the perspective of eternity?
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't take it with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's something that we all have to think about because it doesn't matter
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  SPEAKER_00: whether you have a lot or a little.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can be very attached to the very few things that you have.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can have many things and not be attached to them at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's an invitation for us to examine our hearts and to cultivate an attitude
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  SPEAKER_00: of trust in God and an attitude of entrusting all that we have to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saying, God, you know, it's all yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to use it the best I can.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then when it's time, I'm going to give it back to you with complete freedom.