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Five Minute Sermons, Volume II.: For Low Masses on All Sundays of the Year by Priests of the Congregation of St. PaulPaulist Fathers

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Five Minute Sermons, Volume II.: For Low Masses on All Sundays of the Year by Priests of the Congregation of St. Paul

Name: Five Minute Sermons, Volume II.: For Low Masses on All Sundays of the Year by Priests of the Congregation of St. Paul
Author: Paulist Fathers

Paulist Fathers

Catholic Church -- Sermons; Sermons, American -- 19th century

At that time Jesus said to his disciples:
  No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one,
  and love the other: or he will hold to the one, and despise the
  other. You cannot serve God and Mammon. Therefore I say to you,
  be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for
  your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the
  food, and the body more than the raiment? Behold the fowls of
  the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather
  into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you
  of much more value than they?
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  And which of you by thinking can add to his stature one cubit?
  And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of
  the field how they grow: they labor not, neither do they spin.
  And yet I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory
  was arrayed as one of these. Now if God so clothe the grass of
  the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the
  oven: how much more you, ye of little faith? Be not solicitous
  therefore, saying: What shall we eat, or what shall we drink,
  or wherewith shall we be clothed? For after all these things do
  the heathen seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of
  all these things. Seek ye, therefore, first the kingdom of God
  and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

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              Sermon CXX.

       The Poverty Of Christ.


  _For after all these things do the heathen seek._
  --St. Matthew.  vi. 32.


In this day's Gospel our Blessed Lord would teach us that the
difference between men is the difference between the objects for
which they live. And he lays down the fundamental law of his
kingdom, that if the chief object of one's life is the enjoyment
of the things every where about us--eating and drinking and money
and lands--he has therein a mark of belonging to the kingdom of
this world. To belong to our Lord's kingdom we must live for none
of these things as the end of our endeavors. We may, indeed, have
and use the things of this world, but for higher purposes than
the world itself can offer; as far as any enjoyment in them is
concerned, it is too trifling a matter to engage our serious
pursuit.

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