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<\/a>Surprised by a harvest that went far beyond his expectations, the rich landowner finds himself obliged to think; \u201cWhat am I to do\u201d He\u2019s talking to himself.<\/p>\n
In his horizon no one else is around. It seems he doesn\u2019t have a wife, children, friends or neighbours. He\u2019s not thinking about the farm-workers who work in his fields. He\u2019s only concerned about his welfare and wealth: my harvest, my barns, my goods, my life\u2026<\/p>\n
The rich man doesn\u2019t understand that he lives closed in on himself, prisoner of a logic that dehumanizes him, emptying him of all dignity.<\/p>\n
He only lives to accumulate, store and increase his material welfare; \u201cI will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and store all my grain and my goods in them, and I will say to my soul ; My soul, you have plenty of good things laid by for many years to come, take things easy, eat, drink and have a good time\u201d.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, unexpectedly, Jesus has God intervene. God\u2019s cry interrupts the rich man\u2019s dreams and illusions: \u201cFool! This very night the demand will be made on your soul; and this hoard of yours, whose will it be then?\u201d<\/p>\n
God\u2019s sentence: this rich man\u2019s life is a failure and a foolishness.<\/p>\n
He builds his barns bigger, but doesn\u2019t how to broaden his horizon of his life. He grows his wealth, but diminishes and impoverishes his life. He accumulates goods, but doesn\u2019t know friendship, generous love, joy or solidarity. He doesn\u2019t know how to give or share, only hoard. Is there humanity in such a life?<\/p>\n
The economic crisis we are suffering is a \u201ccrisis of ambition\u201d the rich countries, the huge banks, the powerful in the world. We\u2019ve wanted to live above our possibilities, dreaming about accumulating well-being without any limit, and forgetting more and more about those who sink into poverty and hunger. Suddenly our security falls apart.<\/p>\n
This crisis isn\u2019t just one crisis more. It is a \u201csign of the times\u201d that we need to read in the light of the Gospel. It\u2019s not difficult to hear God\u2019s voice in the depths of our consciences; \u201cEnough now of such foolishness and so much cruel lack of solidarity\u201d.<\/p>\n
We will overcome our economic crisis without fighting for a profound change in our way of life, we need to live more austerely, we need to share more of our well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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