Preaching for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Grace Mariette Agolia, offers a reflection on St. Lydia as a model of ongoing and whole-hearted response to God:

"Through baptism, Lydia came to know life in Christ and the hope of sharing in his glory, treasure infinitely more valuable than the purple cloth she traded. She heeded Jesus’s warning in today’s Gospel reading from Luke: 'Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions'"...

Grace Mariette Agolia is a PhD candidate in Systematic Theology with a minor in History of Christianity at Boston College. Her primary theological interest is ecclesiology, and her dissertation focuses on the role of ministry in the church’s sacramental mediation of God’s grace. Before beginning doctoral studies, she spent a year in the L’Arche Daybreak community in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and she currently serves on the board of directors for the L’Arche Boston North community in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

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