Salve.
Where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
So our hearts should be set on heaven, living for heaven.
But we can also make preparations for heaven by storing up treasures here on earth in our heart,
by doing good works.
And we can have that motive.
We can have that motive to gain reward for eternal life.
There was a heresy a few hundred years ago that said that if your motive in doing good works
was to gain a reward in heaven, then that was wrong, that that was selfish,
that that was not what the church teaches or what Jesus taught.
Obviously, it is what Jesus taught, that we can store up treasures for ourselves.
And obviously, if we can, then we can.
And we can have that intention in our good works.
But of course, the most important thing in striving to gain treasure for heaven
is to do it for the purpose of pleasing God, to do his will,
as we read in the second part of this gospel.
The lamp of the body is the eye.
If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light.
But if your eye is bare, you'll be filled with light.
But if your eye is blank, your whole body will be filled with light.
But if your eye is blank, your whole body will be filled with light.
But if your eye is blind, your whole body will be filled with light.
But if your eye is blind, your whole body will be filled with light.
But if your eye is blind, your whole body will be filled with light.
But if your eye is blind, your whole body will be filled with light.
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness.
The tradition of the church is that this eye that is sound,
that will fill our whole body with light, is the intention of our good works.
Our intention should be to please God and to do his will.
If we have that pure intention, and the purer it is,
the more it pleases God and the more rewarding and meritorious it is,
this eye, our eye should be sound, should be purely for the purpose of pleasing God,
as purely as we can.
Of course, we want to keep purifying our intentions to make them more and more
according to the mind of God, according to his will.
And at the same time, we gain merit.
We gain reward for every good work.
We gain reward for every good work that we do.
And so we can have that intention, you know, in every rosary that we pray every day.
We can pray more than one, two, three, all four rosaries a day
and do them for the merit of it.
Or we can go to Mass every day and do that for the merit of it.
We can say so many prayers every day and do so much good work
and join some kind of society or maybe join religious life.
And gain all the immense rewards of religious life, which is packed full.
Every moment of religious life done under obedience is rewarding and meritorious.
And imagine a whole life, a whole religious life full of rewards and merits for eternity.
But we should be doing this for the purpose of pleasing God.
That's the...
That's the most primary motive.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be.
Our heart should be in what we do.
We should be praying the rosary with our heart, with love for God,
with the desire to please God.
We should do all good works with our heart.
You know, we can't just do these things mechanically, mathematically.
I want to do all these things and, you know, count them all up.
You know, it's where our heart is.
It's where our heart is.
Our heart should be where God wants to be.
We're doing good works and we're doing all these things because that's what God wants us to do.
Our heart should be in God's will, not in all the things that I want to do,
all the things I want to amass for myself.
But at the same time, we're human.
We think of all the things that we can do for God and that are meritorious.
And again, we have to put our heart into it.
We can't do things mechanically without love.
Love is where our treasure is.
The more love we have, the more treasure we will gain for eternal life.
And so we entrust our rewards, our merits, and our intentions to Our Lady.
And we want to give her all of our merits and rewards as St. Louis de Montfort,
St. Maximilian, St. Father Stefano Minelli say that we should give all ourselves,
our merits to Our Lady, and let her prepare our reward for eternal life,
which will be certainly much greater than anything we can try to prepare.
We give everything to Our Lady.
We ask her to purify our intentions, to purify our good works,
make them more and more perfect and pleasing to God.
Again, put our entire heart into serving God, loving Him, and doing His will for His glory.
Amen.
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