Warning

In this time of financial and economic trouble, much has been made about the salaries and other compensation of some corporate executives.

Injustice and imprudent use of resources are certainly causes for action.

Even so, we must keep our focus on what is right and prudent without being diverted by resentfulness, envy, or feelings of failure.

We do well to heed the Lord’s warning to Cain in today’s first reading (Genesis 4:1-15, 25):

"Why are you so resentful and crestfallen.
If you do well,
you can hold up your head;
but if not,
sin is a demon lurking at the door:
his urge is toward you,
yet you can be his master."