15th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Our Poverty and God's Providence

In today's Gospel Jesus gives the instructions to his disciples that when they go out on mission they are to bring nothing with them except a walking stick: "No food. No sack. No money in their belts." They must have felt pretty vulnerable setting out from Capernaum, yet that is precisely the point.  When the return, they aren't starving, and all of their needs were met on the journey. God wants us to learn that He wants to provide for us, and He will do so if we let Him!