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SUMMARY:Family Communion
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DESCRIPTION:Family Communion for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity: celebra
 nt the Revd Tola Badejo\,\n\nFirst reading: Colossians 3. 1-12\nGospel: Lu
 ke 12. 13-21\n\nDuring the month of August there is no Junior Church and a
 ll of our Sunday services are 'Family Communion'.\n\nIn different ways\, b
 oth of today's readings contrast 'the things that are above' with 'the thi
 ngs that are on earth'. Paul's examples of bad behaviour in Colossians are
  mostly indefensible in any circumstances\; they are generally things that
  anyone\, of any religion or none\, would agree to be wrong even if they t
 urned a blind eye to their own transgressions. The 'rich fool' parable is 
 rather more complex\, because an excellent harvest is a good thing and the
 re is nothing to suggest that the rich man has done well as a result of ch
 eating his neighbours or any other underhand practice. The problem is not 
 his wealth in itself  but his uncritical and self-centred sense of entitle
 ment: he neither thanks God for his good fortune nor considers how he migh
 t use it for the wider good\, and he makes the all-too-easy mistake of ass
 uming that material prosperity guarantees happiness and security.    \n\nT
 he 'rich fool'  doesn't seem a very promising subject for an artist\, but 
 Rembrandt produced a memorable painting in response to the parable. The ex
 treme contrast of light and shadow communicates the man's obsession with t
 he coins in front of him and his indifference to everything beyond\; his p
 iled books and ledgers seem to enclose and even to threaten him\, as thoug
 h they are holding him in a prison of his own making.
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