From yesterday's gospel: "Jesus said to his disciples: Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span? Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? . . .[S]eek first the kingdom of God . . . ."
From De La Salle (Med. 67.3): "Jesus Christ assures you that God will take charge of providing your food and your support. Your heavenly Father, he says, knows that you need all these things. He is the one who feeds the birds of the sky. Are you not far more valuable than they? Are you not far dearer to him than birds? . . . If, then, you are devoted to work in the harvest of souls, how can you fear that the One who employs you in this task as his coworker will refuse you the food that you need to do his work? The more you are abandoned to God for what concerns your temporal needs, the more care he will take to provide for you. . .Turn your thoughts to God; place all your trust in him, and he will feed you."
This is a most difficult scripture. For us to truly live what Jesus teaches, we must be immersed in what we do. For God promises, De La Salle wrote, that we will be fed by caring for our students. It is not about the birds or the grass. If we care for our students, how could God fail to provide what we need to carry out this work? Our students, with all of their educational, economic, and social needs, live in the heart of God, who loves them. "Seek first the kingdom of God", "place all your trust in him": seek our students in God's heart, and there you will find all that you need.
Live, Jesus, in our hearts!