STORING UP BURNING FIRE
DO NOT BE AN OBSTACLE TO ANY CHILD THURSDAY 7TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C MY DAILY OFFERING: O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. First Reading(s) James 5:1-6 The Lord hears the cries of those you have cheated An answer for the rich. Start crying, weep for the miseries that are coming to you. Your wealth is all rotting, your clothes are all eaten up by moths. All your gold and your silver are corroding away, and the same corrosion will be your own sentence, and eat into your body. Lectures It was a burning fire that you stored up as your treasure for the last days. Labourers mowed your fields, and you cheated them, listen to the wages that you kept back, calling out; realise that the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. On earth you have had a life of comfort and luxury; in the time of slaughter you went on