Who should pay?

Homily

Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time B2

+Jane Frances de Chantal

St. Ann Catholic Church - Prairie Village, KS

AMDG 

Who should pay?   This question comes up a lot everyday, whether you're looking at your taxes, as Jesus was in today's Gospel, or looking at your budget and responsibilities.  

Normally, the person who is blessed with much is tasked with the responsibility to be generous, and to use his means to care for others.  The one who is responsible for the relationship is the one who pays.

Jesus rightfully says that since He is a Son of God, that church should be free, and that he has a right to be in the temple without paying.  Yet because his greater responsibility is to establish the new temple in His body, by getting Himself killed, he robs a fish who apparently didn't need money, and pays the temple tax.

The Gospel is sometimes very simple to understand.  Today it's about picking your battles, and having bigger fish to fry, so to speak!

+mj