Amos 8:4-7
Psalms 113:1-2, 4-8
1 Timothy 2:1-8
Luke 16:1-13
Amos 8:4-7
(4) Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without (5) You say, “When will the first day of the month be over, so we can sell our wares, and the sabbath, so we can open the grain: in order that we may decrease the measure, and increase the price, and substitute deceitful scales (6) in order that we may possess the destitute with money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell even the refuse of the grain? (7) The Lord has sworn by the arrogance of Jacob: I will not forget, even to the end, all their works
Psalms 113:1-2, 4-8
(1) Alleluia. At the departure of Israel from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people (2) Judea was made his sanctuary; Israel was made his power (4) The mountains exulted like rams, and the hills like lambs among the sheep (5) What happened to you, O sea, so that you fled, and to you, O Jordan, so that you were turned back again (6) What happened to you, O mountains, so that you exulted like rams, and to you, O hills, so that you exulted like lambs among the sheep (7) Before the face of the Lord, the earth was moved, before the face of the God of Jacob (8) He converted the rock into pools of water, and the cliff into fountains of waters
1 Timothy 2:1-8
(1) And so I beg you, first of all, to make supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings for all men (2) for kings, and for all who are in high places, so that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and chastity (3) For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior (4) who wants all men to be saved and to arrive at an acknowledgment of the truth (5) For there is one God, and one mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus (6) who gave himself as a redemption for all, as a testimony in its proper time (7) Of this testimony, I have been appointed a preacher and an Apostle, (I speak the truth, I do not lie) as a teacher of the Gentiles, in faith and in truth (8) Therefore, I want men to pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger or dissension
Luke 16:1-13
(1) And he also said to his disciples: “A certain man was wealthy, and he had a steward of his estate. And this man was accused to him of having dissipated his goods (2) And he called him and said to him: ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship. For you can no longer be my steward. (3) And the steward said within himself: ‘What shall I do? For my lord is taking the stewardship away from me. I am not strong enough to dig. I am too ashamed to beg (4) I know what I will do so that, when I have been removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. (5) And so, calling together each one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my lord? (6) So he said, ‘One hundred jars of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your invoice, and quickly, sit down and write fifty. (7) Next, he said to another, ‘In truth, how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘One hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your record books, and write eighty. (8) And the lord praised the iniquitous steward, in that he had acted prudently. For the sons of this age are more prudent with their generation than are the sons of light (9) And so I say to you, make friends for yourself using iniquitous mammon, so that, when you will have passed away, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles (10) Whoever is faithful in what is least, is also faithful in what is greater. And whoever is unjust in what is small, is also unjust in what is greater (11) So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true (12) And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours (13) No servant is able to serve two lords. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
