Is One Coat Enough for You?
- Fr. Pawel Szymanowski, CR
- Mark 6: 7 - 13
A Resurrectionist Vocation Minute for July 14, 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Is one coat enough for you?
St. Jerome asks: “Are all commanded not to have two coats, nor food in their possession, money in their purse, only as stuff in the hand and shoes on the feet? Are all commanded to sell all they possess and give it to the poor and follow Jesus? Of course not. This command is for those who earnestly desire to respond fully to grace”.
A vocation to religious life arises from this desire.
“By evangelical poverty, we worship God by acknowledging our total dependence on Him. We detach ourselves from material things so that we may give ourselves more fully to the imitation of the poor Christ and to the exercise of the apostolate. We give witness to the world of the supreme importance of storing up treasure in heaven”.