Storing the Right Riches

Scripture Reflections for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Year C, Lectionary 114


Maturing spiritually is to realize that all things around us are not permanent, except God. That we must hold on to God and live our lives to remain in communion with God. To hold on to the perishable is to perish with it. But to hold on to the source of life is to have life. And there is no vanity in that.

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Psalm 90:3-6, 12-14, 17
Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11
Catholic Productions

“The reason we seek the things that are of Heaven is not because the Earth isn't good, it is good. God made it. But we seek the things of Heaven and things that are above because Christ is there.”


Brant Pitre in "St. Paul and Mortification" (August 25, 2022)
Overall Readings

“Miserliness and wild spending are related aspects of the same sin. People, either way, are possessed by their possessions.”


Fr. Geoffrey Plant in "Rich in the sight of God" (July 28, 2025)
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Saint Katharine Drexel Parish - Boston, MA

“Know that it is not about that vanity, that quality of being worthless or futile. Nothing we do in the name of the Most High God is futile, if it is of God's will.”


Fr. Oscar Pratt (July 31, 2022)
Catholic Women Preach

“Today's scriptures present us with a summons to ongoing conversion, to render an account of our hearts”


Grace Mariette Agolia (August 03, 2025)
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U.S. Catholic magazine

“Love, joy, gladness, even or especially amid the sorrow and the grief, the Lord reminds us of what our life is all about. But do we start the day by asking the Lord to remind us of this?”


Vivian Cabrera (July 22, 2022)
St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church, Philadelphia

“But the Word of God reminds us if you don't order yourself with God, your greed will send you to hell...your lust for things, your lust for people, your lust for power will lead you to a space of no return”


Fr. Stephen Thorne in "God, family, work" (July 28, 2019)
Catholic Women Preach

“Our creation in the image of God gives us a beautiful vocation in destiny. We are made for relationship with God and one another, and not just any kind of relationship but the relationship of mutual love that our tradition calls communion.”


Elizabeth Garlow (July 31, 2022)

“It is not how much possession I have that will count against me. It is how much my possession has possessed me. There'll be multi-billionaires in heaven just as there will be many poor people who will miss heaven.”


Fr. Emmanuel Ochigbo (July 24, 2022)
Catholic Productions

“So, if you read the fuller context of Ecclesiastes, too, you'll see that in particular what the book is highlighting is the anxiety that comes with wealth”


Brant Pitre in "All is Vanity" (July 29, 2019)
Catholic Women Preach

“Luke’s parables about money are ultimately parables about discipleship. And as the Gospels make quite clear, discipleship in the kingdom of God requires us to radically rethink our relationship to wealth and material things.”


Meghan Clark (July 23, 2019)
St. Teresa of Avila - DC

“We get very preoccupied with all of the things that tie us down on Earth but...Jesus wants us to know that our life can be over just like that. That we're not even promised the rest of today.”


Monsignor Raymond East (July 31, 2022)