Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

On this holiday weekend, as we explore today’s gospel reading, we again discover Christ’s call to be vulnerable and hospitable, two aspects of life that I fear are diminishing in our culture.  For this reason, I find Jesus’ words to us today to be very meaningful.  They are also helpful because he talks about community.  And, we live in a culture that is continually experiencing the disintegration of community life. As Americans, we have fallen in love with the idea of the self-made person.  We love the rags to riches story.  We have created the myth that if you make it to the top of your profession, you deserve a huge salary because you are the one responsible for getting to the top.   We have this sense in which we are to live as invulnerable human beings.  This rugged individual ethos permeates virtually every aspect of our lives.  It infuses the way in which we think about achievement, education, vocation, the way we are to live and raise our children, the way we perceive others, the way we relate to othe