Mt 6,24-34 – Saturday of the XI Week of Ordinary Time
“You cannot serve God and wealth.” The words of Jesus in today’s Gospel force us to recognize a fundamental truth: the problem is not possessing things, but letting things possess us. When money becomes the ultimate criterion of our choices, it stops being a tool and turns into an idol. The greatest idol generated by wealth is not so much greed, but the illusion of being able to control everything.
We think that by accumulating, predicting and organizing everything we will be able to protect ourselves from the uncertainty of life. But the more we seek security in things, the more anxiety grows within us. It’s a chase that never ends, because no amount of goods manages to fill the need for peace that we carry in our hearts. This is why Jesus invites us to look elsewhere. God does not promise a problem-free life or some sort of guaranteed well-being. Promises a relationship. And this relationship changes the way of being within reality.
Those who know they are loved and cared for by God no longer live dominated by fear of the future. When Jesus says not to worry about what we will eat, drink or wear, he is not proposing a form of irresponsibility. It does not invite passivity or superficiality. He is teaching us to re-prioritize. Necessities have their place, but they cannot occupy our entire heart. First comes the Kingdom of God, first comes the search for what really mattersand everything else finds its right place. Continuous worry, in fact, tears us away from the present. Those who live constantly projected forward never truly live their own life. It is always in tomorrow, in the problems that could come, in the fears he imagines. Thus he loses the ability to recognize the good that God is already giving him today.
This is why Jesus’ final advice is to practical wisdom: «Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will already have its anxieties. Each day has its own punishment.” Faith does not eliminate difficulties, but gives us the present back. And the present is the only place where we can meet God, truly love, and live fully. The present is the place where there is the face of who you love, of what you do and who you really are.
Saturday 20 June 2026 – (Saturday of the XI Week of Ordinary Time – Even Year)
