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Our Holy Mother the Church provides for our lesson today, the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 31 August 2022, the text of St. Luke's Gospel Chapter 12, verses 13-21. Someone in the crowd asked Jesus to act as arbitrator to the conflict of claims between two brothers. Our Lord does not accept the invite but focused on reminding everyone that there in our hearts lurks covetousness or avarice. Hence, we would need to be on guard against it because it explains the quarrels we have over possessions in this world. Our Lord calls a person preoccupied only with his money and business a fool because he was going to be called to God's presence very soon. At death, no one can bring anything of this life to the next. He should have thought about his social responsibility before thinking of a flimsy security of having a lot to be able to simply make merry.