Holy Attachment and Self-Gift
- Fr. Eric Wagner, CR
- Luke 16: 19 - 31
A Resurrectionist Vocation Minute for September 28, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Holy Attachment and Self-Gift
This week’s readings highlight twin keys for living our Christian call to holiness: fostering holy attachments and offering ourselves as gifts. Both Amos and Jesus’ parable of the rich man highlight how God makes us for attachment and yet we can easily develop unhealthy, unholy attachments that blind us to concerns for others. As a remedy, the letter to Timothy exhorts us to give of ourselves by living virtues rooted in the commandments. Doing so promises a share in Christ’s eternal glory.
As resurrectionists our call emphasizes that both holy attachment and self-gift first come to us from God who is love and eternally self-sacrificing. Only by first receiving the gift of God’s love can we rightly attach and properly give of ourselves. The Charism Statement puts this matter neatly when it states:
“God’s love for us is merciful and unfailing…With Jesus, we die to ourselves when we surrender our lives to the Father, renouncing anything that separates us from him.”
