Seek What Is Above: PMU Gospel Commentary

Gospel Commentary by Fr. Anh Nhue Nguyen OFM Conv., International Secretariat of the Pontifical Missionary Union

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time — Ecc 1:2; 2:21-23; Ps 90; Col 3:1-5,9-11; Lk 12:13-21

“Having taught his disciples to pray with insistence and filial confidence for the coming of the Kingdom of God and for the essentials of life, Jesus, along his missionary journey to Jerusalem, now faces a curious situation when “someone in the crowd” asks him: “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” Such a request provokes a strong reaction in Jesus who then seizes the opportunity to teach, indeed, to proclaim the wisdom of life to all present, then as now, to all of us his modern listeners.”