Presider’s Page for 31 July (Ordinary Time 18)
God’s Word calls us to recognise the transience of life, to keep our eyes on what is lasting: we gather in that spirit today.
31 July. Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Rich Fool is a sombre warning to anyone who complacently enjoys being rich and comfortable, while others starve. The economic model imposed by our capitalist, accumulative society plays a large part in world inequalities and tensions. 1st Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23 “Vanity of vanities!” You can’t take it with you when you die Vanity…