Innocent as Doves, Shrewd as Serpents | Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. reflects on Luke 16 and the surprising words of Jesus about dishonest wealth and prudence. The children of this world show shrewdness in passing things, but Christians are called to an even greater order that embraces both temporal and eternal realities. Prudence is right reason in action, the virtue that orders small and great matters alike toward God. To live with prudence is to recognize that everything from money to family to worship is ordered to Him who is wisdom itself.