17.Sunday in year A Mt 13,33-42

What do I see the meaning of life in, and what do I do to ensure I’m not wrong?

Introduction.

Many will also use the time of holidays and vacations to answer questions and reevaluate their lifestyle, which they don’t have time for during the rush and duties, or forget to realize. For example, what can a person do with his body? At least a few records. It jumps to a distance of almost 9 meters and a height of nearly 2.5 meters. He runs a hundred meters in less than ten seconds. Marathon in two hours.
It is said that someone who trains can, for example, swim tens of kilometers without resting, lift twice as much as he weighs… In Quinens’ book of records, we read that a person kills an ox with a blow of his hand, pulls an airplane or a train set several meters with a rope in his teeth… And yet this miracle, the human body, is composed of elements that cost about twenty crowns together.
The politician announces that he will eat, drink, r, relax and tramuch lot in retirement. Others sell their honor, name, and body to be famous, rich, to prove something, to mean something.

When the multi-millionaire industrialist Filberto Guala sold and gave away his property and joined the strictest Trappist order, it caused various reactions in Italy. Likewise, when Georg Mayr Melnhof, the son of a well-known noble family, a trained economist from a billionaire family, where he was supposed to be the administrator of the most extensive Austrian forestry in 1995, entered the seminary.

Behind that and other values, names, decisions, and attitudes, we talk about the meaning of life. Positive and negative actions and behavior cause various questions, surprises, disappointments, hope, joy, peace of mind, and certainty of a new life. The meaning of life affects us too.

The parables about the treasure hidden in the field, the merchant looking for precious pearls, and the net that catches all kinds of fish want to say what Jesus wants to remind us about the kingdom of God.

The parable of the treasure hidden in the field and the buyer looking for precious pearls in connection with the kingdom of heaven speaks of the high price of heavenly values. Each person walks their path in life, and all galleries are the same. They have one mission, one goal. God enters the course of each person appropriately. God enters a person’s life on a specific day during a particular event. What was is not decisive. It doesn’t matter if someone was looking for God or drowning in sin. The treasure in the field was discovered by accident. No one was looking for him.

On the other hand, the buyer was looking for a rare pearl. Both cases say that the finders came to the treasure only by God’s grace. A person discovers God even when he is not looking for God when he is not looking for him,m and possibly, when he is looking, he finally finds him. First gives himself and reveals himself, and then faith grows out of man’s free choice. Always and in all cases, heavenly values ​​are of great value. How many people walked across the field where the treasure was hidden? Jesus walks among us, and how many people do not notice him?
The buyer searches for and receives the coveted pearl. The search was not in vain. He was looking for the centurion Cornelius (Acts 10:1-43) and Lydia (Acts 16:14). To follow them means to seek God with all seriousness and to hold fast to him with all faithfulness. For whom the cause of God is not worthy of every sacrifice, he will never understand the preciousness of the pearl. The precious pearl is indestructible, it cannot be lost, and we will get it here on earth to pull our hearts to heaven. Even the evangelist Matthew left everything when he recognized Jesus’ wealth. The treasure hidden in the field and the pearl are Jesus himself.
Our life and roles hide the meaning of life. A peasant, a day laborer who loves the part, works, the amount is not his, but when he finds a treasure on the field, he will do everything to make the glory his. The peasant is an example in that he gives up everything to get the treasure. Man likes to live on earth. When he recognizes Christ, his prize, he does everything to make Jesus the center, the meaning, the goal of his life. Jesus is the pearl in which all the glory of the Father is hidden. When a person gets to know God, he realizes that the kingdom of God is not a property but a value like different values. Man acts radically. He wants God no matter what. He wants nothing that is not essentially connected with God.
Both parables agree that the find will sell everything to get what is trecognizeized as treasure. It is something very valuable that they are willing to sacrifice everything else for it. The difference between the parables is that in the case of the treasure in the field,d, it is a matter of chance; I; in the case of the pear,l, it is a targeted search.
The kingdom of God is the greatest gift. The search and the performance do not give the reality of this gift. However, its existence is given only to those who seek, desire and strive for heaven’s kingdom. Knowing God leads to what the rich young man did not understand. He did not do everything God wanted from him because he left sa; he gave priority to possessions before God.
Abraham is a model of a farmer and a merchant because when God asks of him, even as an only son, he is willing to sacrifice him.
The nation of Israel behaves the opposite of Abraham. Jesus – the Messia,h came, and they did not accept him. The treasure was offered to them, and they preferred their will. And God wants everything. God does not bargain. God does not go below the price. God wants the heart. A pearl is worth a heart. The treasure is worth the heart. In this way, the words about who is looking for his life, that he will lose it, and who loses his life, that he will find it, can also be understood.

The parable of the net and the fish of all kinds points to God’s grace of calling, which God offers to all. God loves everyone. The sea, the world belong to God. God casts a net, the Church preaches, catechizes, and evangelizes; the catch is for everyone. The hunt takes place based on Jesus’ mission command: “Go into all the world…” (Mk 16:15). Jesus wants everyone to be written in BookbookLifelife at the end of time.

And for that,t God needs our cooperation. Let us repeatedly ask: What are we in the world for? It affects us essentially. We give ourselves the answer to the questions posed by life. And we can answer these life questions only by answering our everyday existence. In other words: don’t look for what life can give you, but look for what you can give life. Don’t ask how much joy you find in others, but how much you see yourself and give to others. Ask not only about the goal of life but also about the path to it.
Ask a small child which three wishes he wishes. The answers are childish: perhaps some candy, a computer, a bicycle… When you ask the same question to an adult, the solutions will be appropriate according to intelligence, such as health success… And ask the dying. Human life’s meaning and fulfillment can be compared to a container for liquid. Why would a container be beautiful at first gl but without a bo? Tom. And what would be the use of a containing has a bo that cannot be opened or filled? Human life needs both “space and bottom” simultaneously, meaning and fulfillment, i.e., Content and goal. One without the other is of no use. The devil tempted Christ three times. He promised glory and,d eventually, power. He submitted the Content to him three times. But not once did he offer him a life goal. Man today is in a similar situation. The tempter comes three times in a lifetime and hundreds of times a day.

We realize that the joy of the human soul inevitably includes finding quality content and the goal of life at the same time. Then we will understand the two commandments on which the entire Law and the Prophets rest (M. Kašparů: On the joys of the human soul).
The kingdom of God is a treasure and, therefore, the only catch, the superior real value. To the extent that whoever has it has everything and wants nothing more. “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul” (Mt 16:26)?! For such a treasure, it is worth doing business, giving up, working ng, and living.
A Christian is a person who has let himself be found by Jesus. All false values fade along with the joy of this discovery, but the true ones begin to shine with a new luster. Joy was the essential experience of early Christianity.
Wealth on earth, no matter how valuable it is, whether it is sports glory, medals, wreaths, diplomas, or other awards, fades quickly, disappears, is forgotten, and is destroyed. However, the treasure of God’s kingdom will not be destroyed by rust, moth, or thief.

When a student asked his teacher Plato how much earthly wealth he could have, he received the answer: “Enough so that it is not an obstacle to achieving your goal.”

Even a Christian can only have enough wealth so that it is not an obstacle to achieving his eternal goal. No wealth, power, or fame must become an obstacle for a Christia to forget the meaning of life.

One of the wealthiest people is multi-billionaire Morgan. It is guarded daily by a security guard. He asked the journalist: “Are you satisfied with your fate?” He answered: “My spokesman will answer this question for you. Or ask about my garden; you will find out how I manage it. But you can believe me that any of my employees are happier than I am.”

We are not surprised to hear from time to time that someone has radically changed their way of life. And it’s not just those who go to monasteries, like this or that beauty star. The change of life is the discovery of something of more excellent value.

On September 26, 1660, St. died. Vincent de Paul, of whom it is said that more money passed through his hands than all the banks of that time in France put together. However, he died poor for this world but rich for the kingdom of God. After serving the sacrament of the dying, he blessed his spiritual sons and daughters. At the words: “God, come to my help…” Vincent’s lips moved gently and never closed again… He gave his noble soul into the hands of the Lord… He lived for others. He had people with low incomes as his treasure. He helped them materially and spiritually. God owed him nothing.

Let’s each ask for a happy hour of death for ourselves. Even today, let us consider God’s kingdom as the most valuable treasure, for which we want to work, to seek and which we want to acquire like a precious pearl.