Saturday, September
17, 2016
25th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
AMOS 8:4-7
4 Listen to this, you
who crush the needy and reduce the oppressed to nothing,
5 you who say, 'When
will New Moon be over so that we can sell our corn, and Sabbath, so that we can
market our wheat? Then, we can make the bushel-measure smaller and the shekel-weight
bigger, by fraudulently tampering with the scales.
6 We can buy up the
weak for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals, and even get a price for
the sweepings of the wheat.'
7 Yahweh has sworn by
the pride of Jacob, 'Never will I forget anything they have done.'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 113:1-2, 4-6,
7-8
1 Alleluia! Praise,
servants of Yahweh, praise the name of Yahweh.
2 Blessed be the name
of Yahweh, henceforth and for ever.
4 Supreme over all
nations is Yahweh, supreme over the heavens his glory.
5 Who is like Yahweh
our God? His throne is set on high,
6 but he stoops to look
down on heaven and earth.
7 He raises the poor
from the dust, he lifts the needy from the dunghill,
8 to give them a place
among princes, among princes of his people.
Second Reading
1 TIMOTHY 2:1-8
1 I urge then, first of
all that petitions, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving should be offered
for everyone,
2 for kings and others
in authority, so that we may be able to live peaceful and quiet lives with all
devotion and propriety.
3 To do this is right,
and acceptable to God our Saviour:
4 he wants everyone to
be saved and reach full knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is only one
God, and there is only one mediator between God and humanity, himself a human
being, Christ Jesus,
6 who offered himself
as a ransom for all. This was the witness given at the appointed time,
7 of which I was
appointed herald and apostle and -- I am telling the truth and no lie -- a
teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth.
8 In every place, then,
I want the men to lift their hands up reverently in prayer, with no anger or
argument.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 16:1-13
1 He also said to his
disciples, 'There was a rich man and he had a steward who was denounced to him
for being wasteful with his property.
2 He called for the man
and said, "What is this I hear about you? Draw me up an account of your
stewardship because you are not to be my steward any longer."
3 Then the steward said
to himself, "Now that my master is taking the stewardship from me, what am
I to do? Dig? I am not strong enough. Go begging? I should be too ashamed.
4 Ah, I know what I
will do to make sure that when I am dismissed from office there will be some to
welcome me into their homes."
5 'Then he called his
master's debtors one by one. To the first he said, "How much do you owe my
master?"
6 "One hundred
measures of oil," he said. The steward said, "Here, take your bond;
sit down and quickly write fifty."
7 To another he said,
"And you, sir, how much do you owe?" "One hundred measures of
wheat," he said. The steward said, "Here, take your bond and write
eighty."
8 'The master praised
the dishonest steward for his astuteness. For the children of this world are
more astute in dealing with their own kind than are the children of light.'
9 'And so I tell you
this: use money, tainted as it is, to win you friends, and thus make sure that
when it fails you, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.
10 Anyone who is
trustworthy in little things is trustworthy in great; anyone who is dishonest
in little things is dishonest in great.
11 If then you are not
trustworthy with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you with genuine
riches?
12 And if you are not
trustworthy with what is not yours, who will give you what is your very own?
13 'No servant can be
the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or
be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both
of God and of money.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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