FIRST
READING:
Philippians 4:
10 - 19
10
Now I rejoice in the Lord exceedingly, that now at length your
thought for me hath flourished again, as you did also think; but you
were busied.
11
I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever
state I am, to be content therewith.
12
I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound:
(everywhere, and in all things I am instructed) both to be full, and
to be hungry; both to abound, and to suffer need.
13
I can do all these things in him who strengtheneth me.
14
Nevertheless you have done well in communicating to my tribulation.
15
And you also know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the
gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with
me as concerning giving and receiving, but you only:
16
For unto Thessalonica also you sent once and again for my use.
17
Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that may abound to
your account.
18
But I have all, and abound: I am filled, having received from
Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an
acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
19
And may my God supply all your want, according to his riches in glory
in Christ Jesus.
PSALM:
Psalms 112:
1 - 2, 5 - 6, 8 - 9
1
Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight
exceedingly in his commandments.
2
His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous
shall be blessed.
5
Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order
his words with judgment:
6
Because he shall not be moved for ever.
8
His heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look over
his enemies.
9
He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth
for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.
GOSPEL:
Luke 16:
9 - 15
9
And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity;
that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting
dwellings.
10
He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in that
which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little, is
unjust also in that which is greater.
11
If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon; who will
trust you with that which is the true?
12
And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's; who
will give you that which is your own?
13
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
14
Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and
they derided him.
15
And he said to them: You are they who justify yourselves before men,
but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is high to men, is an
abomination before God.
