Jesus tells us that God must come first in today’s Gospel. God, Fr Tony points out, doesn’t just want a little bit of us, he wants all of us. Can we love God the same way Jesus loves him – with total commitment? Fr Tony discovered that when we pray as St Francis of Assisi prayed, “my God and my all,” we, too, may find ourselves doing things for God we never thought we could do.
Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the LORD intends?
WIS 9:13-18B
I am sending [Onesimus] …. to you … that you might have him back forever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother.
PHMN 9-10, 12-17
“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.”
LK 14:25-33