Heaven


Thursday of week 17 in Ordinary Time


Matthew 13:47-53

Heaven is our final home after our lives here on earth.  We have come to know this in our Catholic faith.  It is our ultimate destination.

Heaven is place of perfect goodness and love.  Heaven is where God dwells and he offers this same home to us.
No one lives comfortably on one's riches and power while the world suffers and still call it "heaven".
But could heaven also exist here on earth?  Of course it could.  But heaven is beyond all politics and riches.  No one lives comfortably on one's riches and power while the world suffers and still call it "heaven".  If we could realize heaven on earth, how can we realize it in all eternity?

Let us allow ourselves to be molded by God like in the first reading.  Let us also be the catch of fish useful to the fisherman and not the useless ones whom Jesus calls "evil".  For God has no use of things if they remain useless and unformable.

If we make use of ourselves as humble instruments of Jesus for the salvation of others; if we make efforts for the poor to have a reason to live, that is heaven.

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