God's Coin
For the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Zac reflects on Matthew 22:15-21, where the Pharisees' disciples try to trap Jesus over paying taxes to Caesar and He answers, "Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." Drawing on his recent pilgrimage to Assisi, he asks what bears God's image if the coin bears Caesar's, and answers that we do, through our intellect and free will, using St. Francis stripping himself before his father and the bishop as a "living coin" stamped with his identity as a son of God. Since we can't give what we don't possess…
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