Self-inflicted catastrophes and God’s antidote

The world today is very much like that depicted in today’s first reading (Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13): facing all manner of catastrophes because of its perversion of authority and de facto worship of self-made “gods” – e.g., power, pleasure, convenience, money.

In today’s Gospel (Matthew 9:32-38) our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ presents us with an antidote to the world’s self-destructive selfishness: vocations to selfless service of God and man.

Then he said to his disciples,
“The harvest is abundant
but the laborers are few;
so ask the master of the harvest
to send out laborers for his harvest.”