Fr Ed uses Leo Tolstoy’s short story, “How Much Land Does a Man Require,” to illustrate Jesus’ warning that we can only serve one master. Tolstoy’s protagonist chooses the accumulation of land as his master. In the end he gets all the land he requires – but at the cost of his life. God or mammon – the choice is ours.
We will buy the lowly for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.
AM 8:4-7
[God] wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth.
1 TM 2:1-8
“No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon.”
LK 16:10-13