April 29.   Jason had a turn to lead the sharing. “Be honest everyone, “he said ”are you all prepared to not only share your things within our family but for us to sell what we have and be prepared to share with everyone in the whole world.  Isn’t that pretty excessive?  I think it is.”  It was a very big challenge for all of them to consider.  “I don’t think that even Pope Francis expects us to go that far, but I know and believe that there are still people like the missionaries and other religious who have given up all their possessions.” “But they don’t have kids to send to school.”   So they threw the idea around.  “It is being of one heart and soul that means feeling for one another that is important and not letting others go hungry.”  “That would be a start for us at least,” was the conclusion.    

Reflect, share and act. Scripture The company of those who believed were of one heart and soul and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had every thing in common.  There was not any one needy among them.  Acts 4:32, 34 Pope Francis: I invite everyone to renewed hope which speaks to us of something deeply rooted in every human heart, a thirst, a longing for fulfillment. FT 55.  JUBILEE.   I ask with all my heart that hope be granted to the billions of the poor, who often lack the essentials of life. Before the constant tide of new forms of impoverishment, we can easily grow inured and resigned. Yet we must not close our eyes to the dramatic situations that we now encounter all around us. Each day we meet people who are poor or impoverished; they may even be our next-door neighbours. They suffer from exclusion and indifference on the part of many. It is scandalous that in a world possessed of immense resources, destined largely to producing weapons, the poor continue to be “the majority of the planet’s population, billions of people. Let us not forget: the poor are almost always the victims, not the ones to blame.  SNC15.   Choose an appropriate action.