--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 6/17/11 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 6/17/11 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2011/06/17/daily-readings-reflection-for-61711#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 6/17/11 Jun 17, 2011 9:00:43 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Scripture: Lectionary # 369.  II Cor. 18:21-30. Psalm 34:2-3.4-5.6-7. Matthew 6:19-23 [Friday's Readings](http://usccb.org/nab/061711.shtml) "Where your treasure is, there is your heart."  What a delightful insight Jesus gives to us with his words that are always life-giving and mind boggling.  Here we have a saying that is perennial and touches each one of us at our depths.  The saying helps us in our prayer life, in our relationships, and in our self-knowledge.  It is one of those wisdom maxims coming from the Word of God, Jesus, that enters our inmost being symbolized by the heart.  We are made happy when we understand it in the context in which Jesus is speaking.  It is about what we do, think, feel, and embrace in love. Certainly, it speaks of our setting of priorities in the realm of the soul but also in the realm of everyday living.  It has to be seen in the total context of Jesus' great Sermon on the Mount. It is ultimately best to treasure in our hearts the things that go beyond what we experience in the here and now, though it starts here and has to be part of our intentional way of living out our commitments to God, to others, to ourselves.  We do not lay up treasures where time wears them away or moths put holes in the fabric of our lives. Sometimes our earthly treasures are lost by sophisticated and professional minds who steal away what we have saved for our future days here.  Jesus reminds us to think beyond this by going deep into our hearts and pondering over what the words of life mean for us in the here and now. Prayer is part of this maxim about the treasures of our heart.  Jesus taught us how to pray in yesterday's sermon on the mount, today he tells us how to develop that prayer.  Another of his saintly servants says it this way: "The essential is the interior." (Blessed William Joseph Chaminade, founder of the Marianists).  We realize that the saying is speaking about bringing about the kingdom of God, not our own kingdoms! Heart means the center of our life and the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are there.  They are the treasure within each of us who have been baptized and have accepted the commitment to a life of generosity and love for one another.  Koinonia is the community form of this treasure of the heart--fellowship, sharing, hosptitality.  Prayer however is the dynamic power that helps us to go deeply into the mystery of God's love and find the treasure hidden in the field of our flesh.  One of the great mystic scientists and philosophers captured this treasure by telling us: "Le Coeur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connait point."  (Blaise Pascal). Yes, the heart has its reasons that reason does not know. These teasures consist of "...things who fruit one enjoys in this world, while the capital is laid up for one in the world to come: honoring father and mother, deeds of loving kindness, making peace between a man and his fellow and the study of the law that leads to them all." (Cf. Sirach 20:30 and 41:14;  Luke 12:33-34). 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