Daily Devotional

If making money stops you from your daily prayers or from attending church as you normally would, if you find yourself doing things that go against your conscience to make money, the truth is that money has become your master. If, as a minister, you only attend to members of your flock who are rich and ignore those who seem to have nothing to offer, then money is your master.

Like the steward who had to let go of what would have come to him as profit, Jesus is telling us today to make sacrifices, to let go of the vain things and fleeting pleasures of life for the greater good of making heaven. Our attachment to wealth and material possessions often obstructs the practice of our Christian virtues.

Bringing back the lost requires great discipline, courage and integrity. You cannot give what you don’t have. To be successful, you must be detached from the world. You must, like St. Paul says in today’s first reading, “count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus.”