First
Reading
Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23
1. Think of the “toil and anxiety of heart with which you labor under the sun.” Is there more of it than you want in your life? How can you balance the toil and anxiety with what makes you happy? Discuss this: “The only thing we take with us at the end of life is what we have given away during our lifetime.”
2. This reading is about priorities. Do yours occasionally need to be checked and rearranged? Do you take time to work? Pray? Be with family and friends? Read? Laugh? Play? Do you neglect any of these areas? Why?
Second Reading
Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11
1. ”Seek what is above.” What do you seek? Where do/will you look for what you seek? How important is it to you to take off the “old self with its practices and put on the new self”? What would you like to see the Church seek?
2. Christ is your life. Does that mean you will never have trouble with what St. Paul calls, “your earthly parts”? He gives a long list: passion, evil desire, greed, etc.. Is ”putting those parts to death” easy? How do you let Christ help with that task?
Gospel
Luke 12:13-21
1. This Gospel discusses people “who store up treasure for themselves but are not rich in what matters to God.” What do you think “matters” to God? In what would you like to be rich?
2. Many would determine your worth as a person by the greatness of your house or your portfolio or the make of your car. How do you determine a person’s worth? Is it possible for a person to have much and still give much?
