1 Tim 6:2-12 / Luke 8:1-3
It seems that things have changed so much from the time when Jesus went around preaching and proclaiming the Good News.
From what we heard in the gospel, it sounded so basic and so simple.
Basic in the sense that Jesus knew what He had to do and the people around Him knew what they had to do; simple in the sense that they lived on what they had.
They seemed to be contented and they were not longing for anything more. After all, they had Jesus with them, and there was nothing more they shall want.
That was then. The here and the now seemed so different. We the Church seemed to be so bloated and cluttered with the question of money and fund-raising and other financial concerns.
But before we go on that track of thinking that the Church is always asking and talking about money, let us recall what we heard in the 1st reading.
Already during the time of St. Paul, the Church had to deal with money matters. But there were also some who imagined that religion is a way of making a profit.
They are still around now, and teaching something different and making a profit out of it.
But as St. Paul said in the 1st reading, people who long to be rich are a prey to temptation.
Let us believe that God will provide for our needs, just as God provided for the needs of Jesus and His disciples when He went round preaching and proclaiming the Good News.