The Twenty-fifth Sunday In Ordinary Time
Reading I - Amos 8:4-7
Reading II -1 Timothy 2:1-8
Gospel - Luke 16:1-13
Serve the One and Only God - The Scriptures for this Sunday remind us that we are accountable to serve the one and only God. The First Letter to Timothy states, "[T]here is one God. There is also one mediator ... Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5). The Gospel parable about a master and a steward connects our belief in one God to our lives by pointing out that "[n]o servant can serve two masters" (Luke 16:13a).
Serving the one God as our master requires that we assist in God's work. The work of God is to "[lift] up the poor ... to seat them with princes" (Psalm 113:7-8). Unlike the greedy characters in the First Reading from Amos, who are obsessed with serving their earthly self- interest, we are to use the wealth of this world to care for the poor, in service of the one and only God. Copyright, J.S. Paluch Co.
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