Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, September 28th, 2025
"Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? " (St. Matthew 6:25)
As human beings we need to be fed and we also have to be clothed. But as Christians, we also have to be spiritually fed on a daily basis. People are hungry for the Word of God. They want to hear what God is saying to them. They are searching for God and may not even know it. As St. Augustine pointed out: "You have made us for Yourself and our hearts are restless until they rest in You." St. Augustine knew full well the desires of the human heart. He was restless himself as a young man but he tried to "calm" this restlessness by focusing on fulfilling many desires of the heart and mind. St. Augustine sought to fulfill his hunger with sex. He sought to fulfill his hunger with wine. He even sought to satisfy this restlessness with learning and education. In essence, St. Augustine found that he went down many avenues to satisfy his restlessness and search for happiness. And he found that each and every time he was indeed "satisfied" for a brief time but then his heart became "restless" again. And St. Augustine discovered a pattern each of these points in his life: he was satisfied for a time, yes, but then he wanted something else. It was not until St. Augustine gave his heart to God that he discovered his heart was "restless" no longer. Our human hearts are indeed restless. Our human minds are restless. We human beings are constantly searching for things that make us happy, for things that satisfy us. And again we find inspiration from St. Augustine when he gives us the answer to satisfying our true hunger as human beings: "So I set about to find God and found that I could not find Him until I embraced the mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus, Who is over all these things, Who was calling me and saying: 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life . . . ."
As St. Augustine discovered in his own life, the human heart desires many things to be "satisfied." But above all these "desires" is the desire to be with God and this can only be satisfied by a relationship with Our Blessed Saviour. "Therefore take no thought, saying What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? . . . . for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." (St. Matthew 6:31-33) As human beings we will desire many things in life but we need to first seek and desire God. Until we discover that purpose, we will forever be restless and unsatisfied in life.
Join us at 10:30 AM on Sundays at St. Margaret church. We worship at the beautiful chapel at Marquette Manor, located at 8140 N. Township Line Road on the Northwest side of Indianapolis.
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