Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
Praised be Jesus and Mary.
Today we're celebrating the memorial of St. Paulinus.
He was a contemporary of St. Augustine and St. Jerome.
And a few others.
He was a statesman.
And he wasn't baptized until later in life.
He was a good man.
Married a Christian wife.
And it was a time before
the Roman Empire.
It was a time before the Roman Empire.
They finally had a child.
But it died shortly after birth.
A week or two later.
And
they decided to both
take a vow of chastity.
his
wife had property in Spain.
An estate.
And they gave
many
of
the children to St. Paulinus.
And they were very generous.
And in turn the people loved them very much.
And they even went to the bishop to make Paulinus a priest.
And this was a very rare occasion because he wasn't even a deacon at that time.
But I guess they did that to hope in the whole world.
In the hopes of keeping him around.
But he had already made a decision to move.
And they went to Italy where he had property.
And he ran into more opposition in Italy from his friends and his relatives.
But that didn't deter him.
He still gave many of his possessions to the poor.
And he lived in a two-story house and in the
first floor he
let the poor people stay there.
And he actually gave them, helped them out financially too.
So that charity of his that was mentioned in the opening prayer
we can learn from.
And he took
this morning's gospel to heart, not to
store up for yourselves treasures here on earth
where moth and rust,
destroy,
but store up for yourselves a treasure in Heaven.
And many people today Are driving force in life,
you know they choose either riches or fame.
That's where their heart lies.
And,
Yeah.
So,
a question they Java,
And our Lord says that if your eyes are bad, your body will be in darkness.
And if your light is darkness, how deep the darkness will be.
Many people are in darkness these days.
They're spiritually blind.
And so, just as St. Paulinus was concerned for the poor, the physically poor and needy,
we too must not neglect them, but we also need to not neglect the spiritually poor,
the spiritually blind, and the spiritually needy.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!