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Protect yourself from greed 3. Then, in the midst of the crowd, a man said to him: Master, tell my brother to share with me the inheritance that has come to us. – Jesus said to him: O man! Who appointed me to judge you, or to make your divisions? – And he added: Be careful to protect yourself from all avarice, because, whatever abundance a man finds himself in, his life does not depend on the goods he possesses. He then told them this parable: There was a rich man whose land had produced extraordinarily – and he kept thinking to himself, like this: What should I do, since I no longer have a place where I can store everything I am going to harvest? – Here, he said, is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, where I will put all my harvest and all my possessions. – And I will say to my soul: My soul, you have many goods in reserve for long years; rest, eat, drink, enjoy. – But God, at the same time, said to the man: What a fool you are! This very night they will take your soul; What will be the use of what you have accumulated? This is what happens to those who accumulate treasures for themselves and who are not rich before God. (S. LUCAS, 12:13 to 21.)