Friday 19 September 2025
St Januarius
1 Timothy 6:2-12. Happy the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs! – Ps 48(49):6-10, 17-20. Luke 8:1-3.
Invited to live our faith openly and creatively
How often have we heard those words? ‘The love of money is the root of all evils?’ Scripture doesn’t say that money itself is the problem, but the love of money. Perhaps we have met people whose prosperity allows them to serve others. There are some of them in today’s Gospel, which introduces several women who travelled with Jesus and who seem to share the same status as ‘the twelve’.
Luke says that they provided for the whole community ‘out of their own resources’. We’d love to know who these people were and how they managed to be so independent. Life on the road was surely uncomfortable, but following Jesus was clearly more important than the ‘self-conceit’ described in the Letter to Timothy. ‘We brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.’ That is not bad news. It is an invitation to live our faith with freedom and creativity.
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