11th Week in Ord. Time, Saturday – 22nd June 2024 – 2 Chron 24,17-25; Mt 6,24-34
Attitude of Indifference
In today’s Gospel, there is a strong call to trust in God, who takes care of the living beings in creation. He provides food for all the animals, and is concerned about the lilies and the grass of the field. God’s beneficent and solicitous gaze watches daily over our life. It flows under the goad of so many worries, which takes away our serenity and balance. However, this anguish is often useless because it does not succeed in changing the course of events. Jesus exhorts us insistently not to be worried about tomorrow (6,25.28.31), reminding us that beyond all there is a loving Father who never forgets his children. To entrust ourselves to God does not resolve all our problems magically but enables us to face them with the right spirit, courageously. At the same time, Jesus teaches us to have the right attitude towards our preoccupation about money and possession. Jesus preaches what St. Ignatius of Loyola calls ‘indifference’ to material things. The attitude of ‘indifference’ is not that one does not care; on the contrary, one cares very much. One cares to have things and to use things only insofar as they are needed to love and serve God and others for his sake. Jesus urges us to liberate ourselves from worry and anxiety about our body and material things, because our Almighty Father takes care of everything and loves me so much.
