If life is too taxing, Jesus be calling

Many of us know intimately Jesus’s call for Saint Matthew to become a disciple. Not because we’ve all read and heard the Gospel story; that would not give us intimate knowledge.

Rather, like Matthew, we are human beings steeped in the cares and lures of the world--all asked to follow our Lord. We know Matthew’s calling from our own. And how the taxman-turned-evengelist responded to his summons from Christ could show us how we should answer ours.