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The Parable  of the   Rich  Fool

We humans are the most perfect creatures in the world. We have reason and we can and think. So think! I am human and Christian. Let these two words guide us today in sermon and contemplation. Different voices are echoing and the main question arises, why do you live and what to do? As a Christian, that is, Christ, you are to follow Jesus Christ. As a man you are surrounded by worries about property, the needs of earthly life. So, how can you make it consistent so that you do not forget about God even in the everyday life? Most humanity is working hard for everyday bread and eventually, it has to be abandoned by everyone. Our generation favors material wealth, more to have more to be!

The world is dominated by consumerism. It’s bad? For God created the world for us people. The mistake is in misguided thinking. St. Paul the Apostle reminds: “You think of what is above, not only of what is on earth.” With the question of how we relate to property, someone came to the Lord Jesus and asked, “Share us, decide on the inheritance.” The Lord Jesus does not want to be a judge, a divisor of material possessions, stressing that he has come for the more important, to instruct the more necessary values ​​of the clergy, which are more necessary than the material values.

He does not condemn property or heir, he wants to teach us what relationship we have to possess. He illustrates his teaching in the image of a man who has seen all the goal of life in wealth. “A rich man lived. You said, you have big supplies … eat, drink and cheerfully feast. ”Who wouldn’t want social security? But the greed of Jesus proclaims foolishness. From the African Republic of Togo a Christian came to Germany. The host led him to his friends, factory, shops and restaurants. After two weeks, the African said: People live  as if they were not God. They only talk about money, property and entertainment. Only God in the church. The same was said by the Holy Father. Today people live as if they were not God. And how is it with us?

Once upon a time there were disputes about a piece of land, a displacement of the fence. When property, savings were taken away from us under totalitarianism, we learned that material things are merely a means and can be lived modestly. But even today, there is covetousness in humans. Private entrepreneurs want to get-rich-quick. This is bad because the necessary things for life must be given to everyone enough. Managers of the material resources of factories, industry should realize that they are meant to serve many people, not individuals. And is it not a sin if the master, the throw expert for the daily wage raises the amount up to a thousand? In addition, theft is spreading, newspapers bring news of burglary, assault, murder. Many people really live as if they were not God.

Lord Jesus, God and the Church do not condemn property. Jesus names covetousness by foolishness because whoever is content with material goods, who has nothing but money, is pathetic, literally crazy. The one who has God is truly rich. We will leave material wealth, but God will remain forever. The second danger of greed is that it blinds the eyes. The miser does not see the needs of a neighbor. Greed tied his hands and heart, so he couldn’t shoot them to the other. Whoever likes to give out is rich and has the greatest treasure, love. He gets God because God is Love. Think of Zacchaeus. He was rich, but that wasn’t enough. He wanted to see Jesus, and when Jesus came to him, he was glad to give away what he had previously accumulated. Today there is little joy in the world. Why? People have lost their sense of God and spiritual things. There is no joy, for there is no love. One who has no love does not seek beauty, it is difficult to bring to God.

There are two ways. One leads and emphasizes only worldly joys. Are you human. Eat, Fri, have fun, death will end. – The second way leads to the eternal joy and says: Use the gifts of God in the world as they bring you closer to God and renounce what distracts you from God. Do you want to be holy? I want and you will. Marx says, “It’s hard to be holy when you want to be human.” Jacques Maritain says, “It’s hard to be human if you don’t want to be holy.” We started with the idea: I’m human and I’m Christian. I cannot separate these two terms’. Man and saint, it belongs together. Be a true man and thus a Christian and saint! If you are a Christian, you will be God’s creation and you will be a true man. Then the Lord God created us to enter into his fellowship in heaven once. But we should cultivate God’s community here on earth in speech, in deeds, in the human community of love. Lord, let us hear your voice and not harden our hearts. Amen.

Today we meet again beggars. Looking at them we have mixed feelings. Perhaps we ask: should we really help them? Aren’t they beggars just because they don’t want to do it? Aren’t they even richer than us? Isn’t it the duty of the state or charity to take care of them? And what would Jesus do in our place? Jesus told us today a parable of Lazarus, who was a real beggar. And a rich man who was a real rich man. Perhaps we would not understand much of the Gospel today if we thought that his most important idea was the afterlife. The reward and punishment in eternity is the result of behavior in earthly life. Therefore, the most important idea of ​​the Gospel is the situation of Lazarus and the rich and their relationship. At the same time, the dogs also gained a significant position.

Jesus tells of the rich man that he dressed in expensive clothes and feasted great every day. Jesus doesn’t blame him for being dressed and eating. He regrets that he wore an unnecessarily expensive dress and over-eaten. The lager was in a completely opposite position. He was a social heir because he had ulcers. He was mentally destroyed because he had no other desires, only the desire to feed himself from the pieces that fell from the rich table. And as much as Jesus wails the rich, his greed and the hardness of his heart were. Therefore, in the parable of Jesus, although it sounds paradoxical, there are more human dogs than man. Thus, between Lazarus and the rich, there was not only a great abyss in eternity, but also on earth, even if they were only a few meters apart.

The internet is a number of websites that are focused on nature. They are admirable things. Scientists are unwell geniuses, but they do not think anything, they only appear, which already exists. When I discover the finder of gold, it does not mean that I am gold invented. It has already been created. For example, when you put a page on the Internet, a person in numbers we find interesting numbers there. For example, the heart of the child at birth has already had a million strokes. And how much it is for a lifetime. The heart breaks down blood into 15 kilometers of blood vessels.  Interestingly, where it is all in man takes. In each cell there are already millions of information. A child when he is born he already has everything he needs. You need to know these things to admire. Admiration, which is associated with Amass  . We also admire the author who created the work. Through nature to us God talks about how God loves us when God has given us such beautiful things. Many people can’t admire. The sea is a beautiful sunset. One concretize example. Yacht at sea.  There was a rich person  there, and he instead of watching a beautiful sunset watching a television newspaper. And there was a television staring by the night, he had around him so many beautiful things, and he hadn’t seen them. Not one man  is so worn out by the business that he does not have a life of almost anything. He has no time nature to admire. Nature was created to admire her man. He thanked God, glorifying God. In nature there is Order. There is nothing going on the jumps. We teach children to admire, take them to the garden innately. Before their eyes plant vegetables, observe with  children as vegetables grow. The child is extremely receptors. Let’s use this feature of children.

The tenth commandment
John 8, 1-11
We do not even have to come to the tenth commandment to know that we are guilty. But it’s not a tragedy. Our diagnosis is serious, but there’s a doctor. The Lord Jesus liberates the culprit from death and says, “Go and more sin no more! “
The last commandment of the Ten Commandments is against greed and envy:”You will not ask your neighbor’s property.” Jesus warns us about this sin when he says, “Be careful and protect yourself from all greed.” As the Catechism teaches, the Lord is training us to avoid materialism, who brings with it the poverty of spirit (cf. KKC 2544). Miserly is an uncontrolled clinging to created good. Ultimately, uncontrolled desire can lead to theft. Through covetousness is in professional life if the trader wishes people’s need lack of goods, lawyer disputes or doctor of illness and the like. In life a stingy man pushes wealth out of God’s first place. First for min this is the greatness of this sin that actually offends the Lord God by because of wealth, he despises God. Paul does not hesitate to attribute the sin of covetousness to idolatry. Then covetousness is evil relates the neighbor:covetousness shifts the neighbor. In this way they oppose the love of their neighbor, in particular the poor. Dependence is associated with covetousness. Envy is an unfavorable attitude towards a neighborly looking at the benefits that others enjoy. Unlike. The covetousness over the desire to have for yourself is dominated by an even stronger desire to others did not. Envy is a kind of sadness from a foreign good. It can to destroy the neighbor, which is even more perverted than theft. Like covetousness and envy contradicts love, for love rejoices in the good of a neighbor. We can fight vices of covetousness and envy by virtue generosity and goodness. When Lord Abraham brought to the Holy Land, Abraham let his nephew Lot choose a better share of the earth, though
Lot took him a better ground, yet God blessed Abraham more. As well as according to Abraham’s example, we overcome covetousness and avoid envy, awaiting God’s blessing. Finally, let us realize the fact that the one who would be here on earth too He owned everything, loses it all once, death takes it away. The property leave sin his house, his friends will escort him to the grave, all he can do before the Lord, there will be his good deeds. In the last judgment, so many they will sue for being hungry, naked, sick, or traveling; but those for whom of life, he will come with gratitude and the Lord will say, “What have you done to them, you made me! ” Let’s look at life through God’s optics. Let’s look for what’s up! Let us to the Lord, let us repent and strive for virtue, so prepare treasure in heaven.

The ninth commandment
Luke 15: 1-32
Today it is very often mentioned and quite widespread disease cancer. And while so many people suffer from it, hardly any of them will say they won’t because others have cancer. Against sin – the disease of the soul, however one often builds much more indifferent. He hides his sin for style life nowadays and so even such a marital infidelity considers love without borders. It mixes what is good and what is bad. God’s Word invites us not to be mistaken by such mistaken returning to the right path by thinking and after sin; the model is wasteful the son, who came into himself and made a radical decision: I will go to the Father and went from the pigs back to the Father. There are and will always be among us those who will consider normal what is being done around them. They think widespread or mostly people approved of evil can be tolerated. So sin becomes their norm correct behavior. The Ninth Commandment warns of uncontrolled bodily desire. Fight against this lust involves the purification of the heart (cf. KKC2520). Let’s not be misled by excuses, as one man says:
“I swore to my wife that I would be faithful to her, not that I would be blind.”At its core, loyalty also requires a clear view. Finally, every marital infidelity begins with an unclean desire. The commandment directly addresses men, as does the Lord Jesus they turn to men when they demand a clear look. Men sin by searching for opportunities in their sensuality. But he says indirectly our Lord and women because they often create these opportunities. Defiantly by behaving, especially by dishonest clothing, they participate in the sin of men. One young American – the husband and father of four children, passed in his life by gradually converting, until he began to live this demand Gospel. Until then, he had not regarded lustful views as something bad and in his heart you justified it by not hurting anyone. He thought his wife still doesn’t know what he’s experiencing. One day, however, you said that since then there will be no such view. After a few days, he was very surprised when his wife told him she thanked him for being already does not look at other women. And he says he was very surprised, ashamed he didn’t even know what to say. Later this man founded the Community St. Joseph, who helps families and fathers to live Christian life. Through prayer, the virtue of moderation and pure intentions let’s try to overcome lust and learn genuinely love.

The truth is sometimes unpleasant, no wonder that a person eats it sometimeshe wants to avoid having to face her.
The Lord Jesus mentioned the bloody massacre of those who had risen against the Roman occupation, as well as the victims of the fall of a tower; then he built these catastrophes in the light of God’s truth, because God has allowed them. In the Psalm the Lord God praises: “Truth is the essence of your words and all the judgments of your righteousness are eternal. ”So God is the Truth itself, he not
 only does not lie to anyone, he cannot lie either: there is no transformation in him nor eclipses from turnover. The Holy Apostle John about Christ, the Son of God, he wrote that it is full of grace and truth. ”The eighth commandment forbids distorting the truth in relations with others. As the Catechism further teaches, this moral prescription stems from the profession holy people to be witnesses of their God who is truth and wants truth (cf. KKC 2464). In the Church, we especially value those who have gone to the uttermost that martyrdom testify their faith in God’s truth in what
finally, the Lord himself raised his predecessor John the Baptist. Truthfulness as a virtue is a balance between what to say and what keep it a secret. Sometimes I have to keep silent. well even in this case it is not allowed to deceive: I cannot reveal the truthbut I must not say false. The commandment must also be remembered of respect for the good name of persons. Any attitude and every word it can do is forbiddencause unjust harm: defamation, who without objectively valid reason reveals the mistakes and guilt of the neighbor to those about themthey do not know; daring judgment, who, although tacitly without sufficientaccepts as a true moral mistake of the neighbor;sneering, who harms claims that contradict the truththe good name of others and gives an opportunity for misjudgment about others. after all
However, adequately warn of the dangers of someone to consultand ask prayers for the wrongdoer, or make a good point to his friend errors, not only is the right lie and the act of love. Ethics of the word today is particularly concerned with communication in the mass media. just here it turns out that repeat lies are easy for people to believe. All the moreconsequently, it seeks to repair the damage.
We laugh at the “Emperor’s New Clothes” event, but we often fall difficult to keep true. Remember, once everything is revealed, in ridicule to those who have distorted the truth. As Christians are also in the ordinary.Let us testify in this world as witnesses in interviews and minor deedsof his God who is Truth and Love.

Very person wants to be well. And by doing so well usually we also understand a lot to have for ourselves, that is to own and enjoy. After the Lord Jesus showed His divine glory on top, disciples they wanted to stay here: “Teacher, we are well here, let’s build three stalls.”
From Peter’s statement, in which he also specified for whom to build stands, we know that not thinking about himself and his two companions John and James, lie on Christ, Moses and Elijah. He completely forgot about himself, so great was his bliss; he had no material stand at all. Abraham was given the promises of the Lord God who He knew. They concerned the material heritage of the earth and earthly offspring. Our homeland but Christians are in heaven, we also believe in the invisible thing that they are prepared for our eternal happiness and therefore we do not  ourselves on material matters. Consider the seventh commandment and thus the commandment “You shall not steal!” It prohibits wrongfully taking or retaining the property of a neighbor and by anybody in a way to bring harm to property (cf. KKC 2401). Area the commandments are very extensive, ranging from righteousness in acquiring property to solidarity between the peoples of the world and the protection of the environment with a view to:the next generation. In this consideration, we will not deal with all of this, but you are we realize our basic attitude to property. We have received from God gifts, both material and spiritual: from him we have life and everything we are, and we have; each of us was given a special gift. Depending on who received it, will be required of him. It follows that it is inappropriate to envy and compare is. You can be rich and holy like the French King Louis IX or the poo rand holy as God’s beggar, Saint Francis of Assisi. With material. The good thing is the essential difference between owning and using. I have the right owning, but the use of it determines the common good. Saint Augustine taught us:regarding the good you possess when the necessity and need in ours are fulfilled life, the rest belongs to the poor. Finally, according to people seeking happiness in material things, one can to guess the question of their doubts: “Can I buy happiness?”psychologists answer that in some way, by spending money on others. A series of studies have found that there is a link between personal happiness and donating money; these studies have been published in Science magazine of 2008. “Independently of making money, it turned out that those who keep Everything for themselves are more unfortunate than those who part of their money or time or In this way, even material sessions point to the spiritual regularities. In fact, spiritual is also manifested through material, soul through body, love through gift.
In conclusion, the idea of ​​the social Pope Leo XIII, who when he considered over the parable of the rich and Lazarus he stated the following: the poor they need the rich to get them out of earthly poverty, but the rich need the poor to take them out of eternal damnation

The Sixth Commandment
Luke 15: 1-32
Philosopher Freud considered pleasure as a motive for human action. This is all his supporters. They claim that, in fact, physical desires condition our behavior. Pleasure as an incentive to act suspiciously resembles the first offer presented by the devil The Lord Jesus: at this first temptation to enjoy the loaves of stone our Lord refused let yourself be guided through the body’s body. Building on the thematic sermons of the past year, we have the precepts in front of us. Commando will not make a mockery!” Forbids physical extramarital union and nurture personal and real human sexuality. Irresponsible attitudes to life can easily be ruined and later only difficult to repair the severe damage caused by the miserable life of our youth. Catechism recalls learning II. Vatican Council: “The dignity of man requires … to act according to conscistil and free choice, that is, driven and guided by personal beliefs and not under influence blind inner impulse or purely external coercion. This dignity man acquires when he frees himself from any captivity of passion and pursues his goal free the choice of goodness, while procuring appropriate means in an efficient and inventive manner. (CCC2339) “
The Lord Jesus teaches us that anyone who looks at a woman with a sinful desire has already committed adultery with her. Not so the sin is only the physical extramarital connection, but the lust if we agree with the unsettled longing for sexual pleasure. This pleasure is morally not established if it is sought for it itself separate from its goals of conceiving and union, which are intrinsic to marital love. Sexuality is like atomic energy has its realization in marriage. One has to avoid searching sexual pleasure outside the context of marriage. St. Paul wrote to the Corinthians and also to us, the admonition: “Be not mistaken, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men, nor adulterers of men … will not be the heirs of the kingdom of God. “It is a grave sin in the forbidden area of ​​sexuality. Surely the Lord God does not want to take us pleasure and joy. Lies just as the manufacturer gives the product instructions for use, even the Lord God as the Creator gives us instructions for a happy life and so ours happiness also guarantees. He gives us his law, which we know in our conscience. Intimate human love has your place in God’s plan. A sexual act that can be a gift and a sanctification in marriage, is hurting and sinning against God outside of marriage. So fornication is in disagreement with the instructions of happiness, the truth even more adultery, which more breaks sacred the bond of marriage destroys what God has united. In the marriage act there is immoral contraception as they separate the two meanings of the matrimonial act: the connective and the prolific. Then there is also temptation to sexual self-satisfaction – masturbation. We also know about the lure lurking everywhere pornography. Sometimes it also makes rape, which brings harm to the most difficult character. In Scripture, we have two diametrically different biblical stories: in the Book of Genesis it is Joseph An Egyptian who can withstand the temptation of Pharaoh’s wife at the cost of imprisonment and vice versa in the Book of Judges Samson, who can be fooled by seductive girlfriend Dalila. In the history of the Church since Saint Agnesa -one of the first Roman martyrs to Mary Goretti – the saint of today, to maintain cleanliness. But even one who has fallen may still be holy. Augustine of Carthage lived an embarrassing and scandalous life. The words of the Scripture: “Don’t live anymore in revelry, fornication, and drunkenness,as pagans …! ” changed him completely and became a virtuous giant of faith, Saint Augustine. Someone publicly asked a provocative question: “Why does the Church care about how we live ?!”
its hierarchical leaders and all its members may fall, the Church does not hesitate to preach the gospel even in this area of ​​life, that God’s grace is stronger than human weakness. The priest is also from the body and blood and so can fall; but whether it is not worth taking a good example from the consecrated the lives of so many consecrated men and women who live restrained ?!

5. God’s commandments
Dear brothers and sisters!
“You shall not kill!” (Ex 20:13) – God’s brief prohibition carries in itself a profound message about human life. “You don’t touch human life ”= is inviolable for you. So, your right to your life and the life of another is not is absolutely. You can’t do what you want with life. The commandment protects life as unrepeatable and irreplaceable value. The reason for the inviolability and hence the sanctity of human life is
that every human being is not only the product of human birth, and therefore of human will, but the original creation of God. “You have created my bowels, you have met me in my mother’s life,” says the psalmist,d he continues, “Your eyes saw me when I wasn’t portrayed, and your book has all my days, only imaginary, for I have not survived yet ”(Ps. 139: 13.16). God “weaved” us – figuratively, that by combining two principles – the body and the soul, as the threads on the yarn, he created a human person. This “Plucking” has taken place already in the womb of the mother, not after birth, and more importantly, this new creation man is not a one-time idea of ​​God, as if God suddenly thought he wanted me, but that we were thinking God, seen by God, and therefore wanting God before we actually exist. Value of our life, therefore, transcends our life. On the one hand, we have existed as ideas in God’s mind since eternity,d we are called by God to cross the threshold of death and live with Him forever. It is for this very reason that human life is sacred and inviolable from beginning to end. I’m made, that is, wanted by God, but I am also called to eternal communion with God. Life is a gift and a vocation. If we speak of vocation, we mean the special plan of God that God has with every man and which God suggests a person to find his life mission. Therefore, we claim that every human life regardless of his quality has an incalculable value. This physical life, or life in the body, is the initial, focused phase on salvation. We are not only here as products of the exuberance of nature, but as persons wanted and targeted by God and therefore beings with sense. A Christian cannot say that “my life has no meaning”. If he were true, he would say humbly, “I do not see the meaning of my existence, for I have not yet discovered it.” The meaning of human life it is not in his quality as I live here, but in the will of God and his plan with me, regardless of circumstances (whether I am handicapped, healthy, poor, rich). “So whoever destroys God’s temple will destroy God,” writes St. the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians (1 Cor 3:17), that is explains that “the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit”. This is another reason. God be decided to dwell in our bodies as temples. So killing or destroying a person is an attack against the temple, against God Himself. Thus, because of God’s revelation, blessed John Paul II. in his encyclical Gospel vitae confirmed this will of God: “by Christ’s authority, granted to Peter and his successors, in communion with the bishops to the Catholic Church, I affirm that the direct and deliberate killing of a human being is always profoundly immoral (EV 57) This category includes: murder, genocide, unfair war, direct abortion, euthanasia, abortive contraception, suicide, abuse. However, this commandment is not limited to these serious crimes against man and life, but contains in yourself and the “go against life”. E.g. harm to health by excessive alcohol consumption, excessive alcohol consumption smoking, drugs, refreshment, stubbornness not to cure, lack of rest, mental blackmail, exasperated anger …