Homily Topic: Keeping our Eyes on the Goal in a Materialistic Consumer World

From the Catholic Liturgy for Sunday, July 31, 2016. Gospel of Luke 12:13-21. When we want to reach a goal we turn to someone who has proven his success at the same goal and can coach us to attain it ourselves. Jesus, God-in-the-Flesh, has come to teach us by word and example how to live so as to reach the Goal: union with God in eternal happiness. One of the things he cautions us about most are wealth, riches, possessions, greed, accumulating things. These are not bad in themselves but can easily become idols in our lives, distractions from our goal.  Jesus points them out as a major obstacle to joyful entering the Kingdom of Heaven. So...what are we to do?