But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel. -Hebrews 12:22-24 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.” -Revelation 7:9-12

Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your vindication as the light, and your right as the noonday. Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over him who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the wicked shall be cut off; but those who wait for the Lord shall possess the land. Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look well at his place, he will not be there. But the meek shall possess the land, and delight themselves in abundant prosperity. Psalm 37:5-11

Today is the feast of Saint Luke, physician and writer of *The Gospel According to Luke* and *The Acts of the Apostles* in the New Testament. Today I read this passage from Luke's gospel: "And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations. “He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Luke 16:9-13) Jesus calls money "unrighteous mammon", associating it with a pagan god called Mammon. He wants us to be generous with our money, using it to make friends who will welcome us into eternal life. Greed can keep us out of heaven. Generosity not only frees us from earthly cares that weigh us down, but the money we give away can help others who may become our friends for eternity. What caught my attention and made me think of posting this on Nostr is that Jesus says, "so that when it [money] fails..." Jesus is telling us that money will fail. Is he talking about the failure of fiat? Not necessarily, because the people of his day did not use fiat money, but he may have had future fiat money in mind. The truth is, for many people, their money fails in one way or another during their lifetime, but for all of us, our money fails us at our death. Whatever comes after death, our money won't go with us, even Bitcoin.

This quote from the late Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, regarding the parable of the vineyard, is very relevant for the Church today. Yet there is a promise in Jesus' words: the vineyard will not be destroyed. While the unfaithful labourers abandon their destiny, the owner of the vineyard does not lose interest in his vineyard and entrusts it to other faithful servants. This means that, although in certain regions faith is dwindling to the point of dying out, there will always be other peoples ready to accept it. From: Homily, 5 October 2008

View quoted note → St. Jerome boldly confronted the errors of his day. He would not have been considered politically correct.

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