A Great Chasm: A Reflection on the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time…

The rich and powerful are visited with woe and exile in today’s Liturgy—not for their wealth but for their refusal to share it; not for their power but for their indifference to the suffering at their door. The complacent leaders in today’s First Reading feast on fine foods and wines, reveling while the house of Joseph, the kingdom of Israel, collapses around them. The rich man in today’s Gospel also lives like a king—dressed in royal purple and fine linen…

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