The Unchanging Criterion
Phil 3:17 - 4:1; Lk 16: 1-8
Prudence is a practical virtue, the capacity to discern the most effective option from a set of available options. When we have Christ as our choice, there need be no confusion regarding what to choose and what not to. When Christ becomes our absolute, our standard, our criterion, then there would be no confusions nor any more options. We would have an absolute to live by, a standard to judge by, a criterion to choose by.
St. Paul lived by this choice and presented the same to the others. Be imitators of me as I am of Christ ( 1 Cor 11:1) said Paul as we read in today's first reading too. We would be judged truly and absolutely prudent if we choose the never failing criterion: Christ; because it is the Lord and the Lord alone who does not change. Christ is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow (Heb 13:8).
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