November 8, 2014

Reading

The Letter of Saint Paul to the Philippians    4: 10-19

4:10	Now I rejoice in the Lord exceedingly, because finally, after some time, your feelings for me have flourished again, just as you formerly felt. For you had been preoccupied.
4:11	I am not saying this as if out of need. For I have learned that, in whatever state I am, it is sufficient.
4:12	I know how to be humbled, and I know how to abound. I am prepared for anything, anywhere: either to be full or to be hungry, either to have abundance or to endure scarcity.
4:13	Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.
4:14	Yet truly, you have done well by sharing in my tribulation.
4:15	But you also know, O Philippians, that at the beginning of the Gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not a single church shared with me in the plan of giving and receiving, except you alone.
4:16	For you even sent to Thessalonica, once, and then a second time, for what was useful to me.
4:17	It is not that I am seeking a gift. Instead, I seek the fruit that abounds to your benefit.
4:18	But I have everything in abundance. I have been filled up, having received from Epaphroditus the things that you sent; this is an odor of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
4:19	And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Gospel

The Holy Gospel According to Luke   16: 9-15

16:9	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.
16:10	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.
16:11	So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true?
16:12	And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours?
16:13	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.”
16:14	But the Pharisees, who were greedy, were listening to all these things. And they ridiculed him.
16:15	And he said to them: “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of men. But God knows your hearts. For what is lifted up by men is an abomination in the sight of God.