Do you remember that scene in the movie, ''Jaws'' when they catch and kill a huge shark, the animal called ''a vast eating machine''? They take the shark into a marine laboratory, cut it open. Out of the stomach comes a bunch of half-eaten fish, an old tire, bones, a piece of a boat, a clock.

A priest I know says, at that point in the movie he exclaimed, ''That's my congregation!''

We are so hungry, so full of indiscriminate desire.

[Read today's gospel, Luke 12:13-21.]

If you take a child, even a very young child, into Toys R Us, you will not have to teach the child what to do. Hours of training by Barney and Disney have taught a child that there is no higher calling than consumption.

If you take that same child into this Chapel on Sunday, that child will be disoriented, confused, wi…