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Brother Knights...
In the Gospel, Jesus tells his apostles to travel light. Life is too short to weigh ourselves down with excess baggage.
The reason we need to travel light is not that things are evil. We’re not supposed to tiptoe through the world as if we’ll be contaminated by material things. A faith that believes in a God who became fl esh and blood can’t have a negative attitude toward material things. A faith that believes in the Resurrection cannot have a negative attitude toward material things.
The reason for traveling light is not that we are supposed to have some discomfort toward material things. We are called to use and enjoy the things of earth. However, we can’t allow the accumulation of things to get in the way of our relationships with people.
People are always more important. Too much concern for things can also bog us down, using all our time and energy to acquire or maintain our “stuff.” The more we pile up, the less free we are to move wherever God wants us to go.
As we begin another year, we need to ask ourselves if we have our priorities right: God, family, community before all, with our possessions important only to the degree to which they help us serve God, family and community.
Fr. Bob Grosch
Chaplain
