Jesus Our Shepherd
05 September 2010

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

What are the greatest gifts God have given to you personally? Your spouse? Your children? Your talents? Your possessions? Everyone’s answers are different. But really what is the greatest gift God has given to each of us? Could it be our body? In our readings from the Book of Wisdom God reminds us that our bodies are “merely earthly tents that burden down our souls and our minds our anxious. We struggle and know so little about things here on earth. How could we possibly learn about things in heaven?” We know from our own experiences that our body wears out and is prone to illnesses. So God is telling us that even though our body and our mind are great gifts they aren’t the greatest even though our current culture would like to make us think that they are just as it gives us the message that our possessions are our greatest gift.