Storing Up Treasures

The selection from Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth) Ecc 1:2; 2: 21013 and the Gospel, Lk 12:13-21, speak candidly about the folly of storing up material goods. The stress, anxiety, sleepless nights and hard work associated with these temporary treasures are "vanity", empty bubbles,  that float for a moment and burst, leaving not a trace. Look at our world today, people working long hours to make more money to buy more things, to spend fortunes on health and beauty aids, clothes, cars and nights out, while unknowingly abusing body and soul.  The day will come for all when sickness and death pierce  the bubble they have spent a lifetime working to create and preserve.
Jesus admonishes us to become rich in "what matters to God." (Lk 12:21).  The Cure of Ars, whose memorial is usually celebrated this day, expended his life in helping people return to God.  He lived poorly and simply, exhausting himself, but indeed through self-sacrifice and laying down his life for others stored up those treasures about which Jesus was speaking, and is a saintly model for us of living out what really matters to God.
Bro Rene