Eleventh Friday of Ordinary Time

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

Throughout our lives, we pick and choose what is important to us. Our choices determine what type of treasure-house we become. We can either spend our lives storing up worldly treasures, which will eventually decay or be stolen by time and death. Or we store up heavenly ones, which will never tarnish and be with us always. Our hearts are either weighed down with worldly desires and concerns, or they are lifted up by heavenly riches that find their source, center, and summit in God.

Where is our treasure? Are we passionate about worldly or heavenly things? How can we store up treasures that will not drag us down and chain us to this world, but rather set us free to live and love in Heaven?

O Lord, help us to treasure you above all.

Amen.