The gospel For Friday, the 11th week in ordinary time is taken from St. Matthew 6, 1923 Jesus said to his disciples, do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thief breaks in and steals. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light. If your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness.

And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be if your eye works, if your eye sees clearly. What God wants us to see is the world as he created it, to see each other as he created us. And there is such goodness and such light and such life in it. But there is a way for us to look and not see and think. The world is only about darkness and evil and ugliness. And then there is nothing but darkness inside of us.

There is depression instead of joy. Please take a few moments to reflect on these words as you listen to the music. Now we’ll close with a prayer, the closing prayer. Open our eyes to see the world as you created it. Help us to delight in the goodness that is there. And we ask this in Jesus name, Amen.