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Aside from family inheritance, much of what made some people wealthy involved cultivating the habit of accumulating all they could for themselves, thinking that one's financial wealth was a measure of divine blessings.

In today's gospel, Jesus addresses a fundamental question that was intended to land in political hot water with the political authorities: Herod and Caesar. The Pharisees and the Herodians having teamed up to push him to answer a question that was so political, asked his view on the census tax do Caesar. Jesus conclusively told them to repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and God what belongs to God. To his disciples, this meant that they have both religious and civic responsibilities to honor.

In today's gospel, Jesus addresses a fundamental question that was intended to land in political hot water with the political authorities: Herod and Caesar. The Pharisees and the Herodians having teamed up to push him to answer a question that was so political, asked his view on the census tax do Caesar. Jesus conclusively told them to repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and God what belongs to God. To his disciples, this meant that they have both religious and civic responsibilities to honor.

A piece of diamond produces many beautiful colors that increase the eye's admiration when the light flashes on it from different angles. Similarly, Christianity's full treasure for the Christian increases our hope and joy of belonging to Christ as its message of good news presents what has been prepared for us.

God gives us this day for the purpose of becoming more like Him. Several opportunities will come our way to show kindness to others today that we must not let them slip by us.

The compassion, love, forgiveness, mercy, kindness, and patience of Christ, which we put on at baptism must not be stained or removed so that the Christian is always ready for the heavenly banquet. And if we stain it, has not the Lord given the remedies so that we may deal with it in the confess our sins?

The compassion, love, forgiveness, mercy, kindness, and patience of Christ, which we put on at baptism must not be stained or removed so that the Christian is always ready for the heavenly banquet. And if we stain it, has not the Lord given the remedies so that we may deal with it in the confess our sins?

In positive Psychology, experts like Luthans, and others, have recently emphasized the benefits of psychological capital: hope, optimism, self-efficacy, and resilience. However, these excellent spiritual resources that have supported Christians to stand firm and undisturbed even during the worst of times for ages to advance the progress of their families and the world. For both Jesus and St. Paul, these resources are available to us as Christians because "now that faith has come" in Jesus Christ, there are several benefits.

Abraham’s faith is the seed and foundation of faith for all believers so that our faith and blessings linked to him. Consequently, the only distinction that matters before God in humanity is being believing or unbelieving. Thus, in Abraham, we realize the following characteristics of faith:

We form friendships to start relationships of interdependence. One writer describes friends as those who know everything about you and still stick with you, and God is simply that friend to us. He knows everything about each of us, our strengths, and struggles, even our spiritually impoverished situations, and yet he loves and cares so much about us

A good prayer life is magnetic. It sends waves of peace and joy around us; it says something about us that sometimes cannot be expressed in words. It anchors the person who prays in grace and victory. Prayer is the easiest thing to do because the only requirement is deciding to pray. Jesus prayed and so did Mary and the saints.

Life begins from conception in the womb but belongs there or ends there. God makes life to belong to the world, to human community, a people aware that they are all made in the image and likeness of God. The revelation that human life transcends human biology and biotechnological activities comes to our notice through the prophetic ministries of many servants of God. Take Paul, who tells us that God chose him to proclaim his Son Jesus to the world from his mother's womb, and Jeremiah, who was told by the Lord of his prophetic mission before his conception in his mother's womb.

Think about Jesus more today and look for all the ways that remind you of him. And remember also that if we know Jesus well, we are encouraged to obey and please him.

Rejection is painful. A priest friend described it as hurtful, sometimes shattering and occasionally killing. But it is something many people have had to deal with one time or another, sometimes exceedingly early in life.

Rejection is painful. A priest friend described it as hurtful, sometimes shattering and occasionally killing. But it is something many people have had to deal with one time or another, sometimes exceedingly early in life.

If we Christians use all the power of love bequeathed to us for the world, we will convert even the most difficult atheists to become Christians.

Keeping our stability and anchor in God in challenging times can always help to emerge from the turbulence and pitfalls we may be encountering. We cannot envision all the things that may or may not go wrong, but if we believe in God's faithfulness and infallibility, then we are encouraged to trust that no matter what happens, God is never wrong.

Pope Francis writeS, "Peace is a great and precious value, the object of our hope and the aspiration of the entire human family...here we can find inspiration in the love that God has for each of us: a love that is liberating, limitless, gratuitous, and tireless."

My dear brethren, let us set time aside to get to know Christ. Know your bible and thereby know Christ. Receive Christin in the Eucharist and thereby permit Christ to live in you.

People need positive affirmation to open themselves to greater possibilities; they can also get shattered at negative comments, gossips, and fault-finding. Let's be committed to being constructive with people in their presence and behind their backs.