Our first reading today is all about greeting our brothers and sisters in the faith of Jesus with a holy kiss! This is more than a kiss on the cheek! It is meant to encompass the gift of our entire selves. It is meant to mean that my whole “transformed-in-Christ” being greets your “transformed-in-Christ” being. Me, as a “new creation, born again by baptism” greets you, as a “new creation, born again by baptism.” It means that we are members of one another; it means that Christ is the common bond between us; it means that the love of God creates, sustains and nourishes us - until we reach the perfection of heaven.
The gospel passage is a continuation of yesterday’s, when the steward was dismissed from service. We recall that he made sure - by clever, but misguided means, to have “something to fall back on” when his dismissal became official. He made quick friends, who would “take him in,” of his master’s debtors!
Today, Jesus continues the lesson by saying that the steward should not have been dismissed in the first place. That he should have been faithful in small matters, so that he could have been given greater responsibilities, rather than being fired.
He also teaches us that doing everything for God ensures that it will all work out - that splitting devotion between God and worldly concerns will only bring stress, unfinished projects, disloyalty to both and final rejection by one: in this case, God. If we place God first, then everything truly does fall into place! God knows our hearts! He knows to what degree we are placing him first! May we commit ourselves at this Mass to pleasing him more and more, and to keeping him and his love and his willingness to help us central in our lives!
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