{"id":4433,"date":"2025-09-25T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:26:14","slug":"lazarus-and-the-rich-man-a-maryknoll-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/lazarus-and-the-rich-man-a-maryknoll-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazarus and the Rich Man: A Maryknoll Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/maryknollsociety.org\/in-touch\/breen-families-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frank Breen, M.M.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maryknollogc.org\/resources\/twenty-sixth-sunday-in-ordinary-time-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time<\/a><br>September 28, 2025<br><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/092825.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amos 6:1a, 4-7<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/092825.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1 Timothy 6:11-1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/092825.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luke 16:19-31<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s Gospel from Saint Luke, about the rich man and Lazarus the poor man, is one of many passages that highlight a major thematic issue in Luke, namely the relationship between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/09\/use-wealth-for-peace-not-war-says-the-pope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wealth and poverty<\/a>. The Gospels in general do not give a structural analysis of wealth being the cause of poverty, with a few exceptions, and wealth itself is not outright condemned, as some people in the Gospels and in Acts are portrayed as wealthy. Saint Luke\u2019s Gospel primarily expounds on the moral obligation of those with wealth to assist the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first reading from Amos, the prophet denounces the mindless luxury of the rich and their practice of ignoring the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/09\/the-poor-will-be-exalted-a-maryknoll-reflection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plight of the poor<\/a>. The Psalm (146) lists the same actions as in Isaiah 61:1-2 and Luke 4:18-19, of the ways in which compassion needs to be carried out, for the oppressed, the hungry, the blind, captives, strangers, i.e., immigrants, and the widow and orphan. The Psalm adds an extra admonition: \u201cGod thwarts the way of the wicked,\u201d referring to those with wealth who ignore the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In today\u2019s Gospel the rich man\u2019s fault is to ignore the poor man at his gate, despite having the luxury to dine very well every day. Another illustrative contrast is presented: although the rich man ignores the plight of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2022\/09\/finding-lazarus-in-mission-a-maryknoll-reflection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lazarus<\/a> the dogs come and lick his wounds. In the first century dog saliva was considered to be medicinal. The dogs are presented as being far more humane than the wealthy humans in this parable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This parable clearly illustrates the radical role reversals already referenced in Saint Luke\u2019s Gospel, namely the Magnificat of Mary that the lowly will be lifted up and the rich sent away empty, and the Beatitudes that state \u201cBlessed are the poor and woe to you who are rich.\u201d The rich man\u2019s wealth is no indicator of divine favor. And Lazarus receives honor from God after death \u2014 honor he was denied during this lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, today it is not hard to find these same contradictions. Wide and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2022\/03\/economic-justice-in-the-hood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">growing disparities<\/a> in access to the resources needed to sustain life continue to plague the international community. Oxfam reported in 2016 that one percent of the world\u2019s population control half the wealth, and the gap may be even starker today. Just in America alone, close to 12% of the population live in poverty, around 37 to 40 million, whereas ten thousand people are called centi-millionaires, those with a net wealth of over one hundred million dollars, and in 2023 there were 879 billionaires in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although not all millionaires and billionaires ignore the plight of the poor, many use their wealth and influence to block programs that will improve the lives of those in poverty, while at the same time promoting policies that enhance their own wealth, such as in low tax rates for the top ten percent. The budget for Medicaid has been reduced by $700 billion over ten years, which will deny <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/06\/catholic-sisters-protest-cuts-to-social-net-in-budget-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">millions of people assistance<\/a> for essential medical care and medications, such as insulin, and it will also inexorably lead to closure of rural hospitals due to lack of funds. Ideological falsehoods are proclaimed that Medicaid is wasteful spending of tax dollars, whereas any accurate evaluation of Medicaid discovers almost no waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Globally, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/02\/usaid-closure-may-be-deadly-says-former-catholic-relief-services-head\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">massive cuts<\/a> to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have resulted in the termination of financial assistance to numerous countries for health, education, agricultural and infrastructural development, food relief, water projects and, most crucially, for the program that shares antiretroviral therapies that have kept millions of HIV-positive people alive, especially in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To adequately respond to today\u2019s gospel in the modern world is to recognize that not only philanthropy is needed but systemic change that will address the structural causes of poverty. The biblical commentator John T. Carroll states: \u201cJesus\u2019 vision of the reign of God bears little resemblance to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2020\/10\/conversations-are-needed-to-change-injustices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">consumer capitalism<\/a> and preoccupation with wealth acquisition so dominant in modern life.\u201d Seeing Lazarus today requires us to engage in the radical role reversal commanded by Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aw3Sfp71PpA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maryknoll Father Frank Breen<\/a>, from Boston, Massachusetts, served in Kenya for nearly 30 years, where he also served as a correspondent for <\/em>Maryknoll<em> magazine. He is currently the peace and justice coordinator for the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To read other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/category\/scripture-reflections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scripture reflections<\/a> published by the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, click <a href=\"https:\/\/maryknollogc.org\/resource_type\/scripturereflections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Featured image: A man is pictured in a file photo carrying a bag of wheat supplied by Catholic Relief Services and USAID for emergency food assistance in a village near Shashemane, Ethiopia. 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