First Reading - Am 8:4-7
Hear this, you who trample
upon the needy and destroy the
poor of the land!
“When will the new moon
be over,” you ask, “that we may
sell our grain, and the sabbath,
that we may display the wheat?
We will diminish the ephah,
add to the shekel, and fi x our
scales for cheating! We will buy
the lowly for silver, and the poor
for a pair of sandals; even the
refuse of the wheat we will sell!”
The Lord has sworn by the
pride of Jacob: “Never will I
forget a thing they have done!”
Responsorial Psalm -Ps 113
R –Praise the Lord who lifts up
the poor!
* Praise, you servants of the Lord, praise the name of the
Lord. Blessed be the name of
the Lord both now and forever. R.
* High above all nations is
the Lord; above the heavens is
his glory. Who is like the Lord,
our God, who is enthroned on
high and looks upon the heavens and the earth below? R.
* He raises up the lowly from
the dust; from the dunghill he
lifts up the poor to seat them
with princes, with the princes
of his own people. R.
Second Reading - 1 Tim 2:1-8
Beloved, first of all, I ask
that supplications, prayers,
petitions, and thanksgivings be
offered for everyone, for kings
and for all in authority, that we
may lead a quiet and tranquil
life in all devotion and dignity.
This is good and pleasing
to God our savior, who wills
everyone to be saved and to
come to knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God. There is
also one mediator between God
and men, the man Christ Jesus,
who gave himself as ransom for
all.
This was the testimony at
the proper time. For this I was
appointed preacher and apostle – I am speaking the truth, I
am not lying – teacher of the
Gentiles in faith and truth.
It is my wish, then, that
in every place the men should
pray, lifting up holy hands,
without anger or argument.
Gospel Acclamation - 2 Cor 8:9
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Though our Lord Jesus Christ was rich, he became poor, so that by his
poverty you might become
rich.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Gospel - Lk 16:1-13
Jesus said to his disciples:
“A rich man had a steward who
was reported to him for squandering his property. He summoned him and said, ‘What is
this I hear about you? Prepare
a full account of your stewardship, because you can no
longer be my steward.’ The
steward said to himself, ‘What
shall I do, now that my master
is taking the position of steward away from me? I am not
strong enough to dig and I am
ashamed to beg. I know what
I shall do so that, when I am
removed from the stewardship, they may welcome me into
their homes.’
He called in his master’s
debtors one by one. To the first
he said, ‘How much do you owe
my master?’ He replied, ‘One
hundred measures of olive oil.’
He said to him, ‘Here is your
promissory note. Sit down and
quickly write one for fifty.’
Then to another the steward
said, ‘And you, how much do
you owe?’ He replied, ‘One
hundred kors of wheat.’ The
steward said to him, ‘Here is
your promissory note; write
one for eighty.’
And the master commended that dishonest steward for
acting prudently.
For the children of this
world are more prudent in
dealing with their own generation than are the children
of light.
I tell you, make friends
for yourselves with dishonest
wealth, so that when it fails,
you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
The person who is trustworthy in very small matters
is also trustworthy in great
ones; and the person who is
dishonest in very small matters
is also dishonest in great ones.
If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth,
who will trust you with true
wealth? If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to
another, who will give you what
is yours?
No servant can serve two
masters. He will either hate
one and love the other, or be
devoted to one and despise the
other. You cannot serve both
God and mammon.”
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