Fr Charlie points out that we no longer need to cast a golden calf to create a false god. Almost anything or anyone around us will do. While worshipping false gods seems to help for a while, it is only the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – the God of Jesus – who can truly help us. It is in his image and likeness we are made – and no other.
“I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. You shall not have other gods besides me. You shall not carve idols for yourselves… You shall not bow down before them or worship them.”
EX 20:1-17
“The seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.”
MT 13:18-23