September 23 - Wednesday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Prv.30:5-9; Ps.119:29,72,89,101,104-105,163; Lk.9:1-6) "Take nothing for the journey." How can he who takes nothing with him for his journey be provided for? Does not such action contradict the wisdom of the king who asks in his book of Proverbs – "Give me neither poverty nor riches"? Is it not poverty the Lord recommends to His disciples? The evangelical counsel of poverty practiced by the religious communities and striven for by all true members of the Christian faith is not the same as that which our author of Proverbs wishes to avoid (no more so than the riches he would keep far from…
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