August 1
Sunday
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: Eccl 1:2; 2:21–23
Here are the words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: All is meaningless – says the Teacher – meaningless, meaningless!
For here was a man who toiled in all wisdom, knowledge and skill and he must leave all to someone who has not worked for it. This is meaningless and a great misfortune. For what profit is there for a man in all his work and heart-searching under the sun? All his days bring sorrow, his work grief; he hasn’t, moreover, peaceful rest at night: that too is meaningless.
Our reflection from this Our reflection from the readings this week is:
Every act of kindness you show to someone changes his or her life. There are countless stories of kindness that transformed the life of the one who gives and the one who receives. The widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon was getting ready to prepare the last meal for her household when the Prophet Elijah showed up asking for something to eat. She said to Elijah that she had just enough for her household that “we may eat it and die” (1Kings 17:12) because that is all she had left to survive on.
Our reflection from the readings this week is:
