JESUS And The Rich Young Man (A Sequel)

Hello! and good day to all of us, GUYS.  Today's "food for the soul":

 

THE GOOD NEWS (18 August 2015)

 

"Then JESUS said to HIS disciples, 'Truly I say to you:  it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Yes, believe ME:  it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 19:23-24

 

(A church portal relief in Dortmund, Germany referencing JESUS’ use of "camel through the eye of a needle" aphorism.)

(There is the question that bothers us most for all that touches money affects us deeply, and it is there that the Gospel shocks us:  it is easier for a camel... 

 

 The call of the rich young man has always been considered the model of the religious, apostolic vocation.  Without effective, voluntary poverty a person will never attain union with GOD that is the goal of the true religious.  Besides, as long as the apostles share the life of comfortable people, they will be able to be their friends but they will never have deep conversions nor will they during this time reach the immense world of the poor.
 

The problem of poverty is also at the heart of the family in today's world:  for the greater number, believers or non-believers, the joys and blessings that GOD showers on a large family will only be given to those who have ceased to evaluate everything according to the criteria of money and security.)