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Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 30, 2007     

Matthew 4:18-22 (New International Version)

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Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost September 23, 2007  

GOSPEL  Luke 16:1–13

Jesus tells the story of a dishonest man who cheats his employer and then is commended by him for having acted so shrewdly. Even so, he reminds his disciples, “You cannot serve God and wealth.   

Then Jesus said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property.  ²So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.’  ³Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.  ⁴I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.’  ⁵So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’  ⁶He answered, ‘A hundred jugs of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.’  ⁷Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘A hundred containers of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill and make it eighty.’  ⁸And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.  ⁹And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes.              ¹⁰Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and whoever is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.  ¹¹If then you have not been faithful with the dishonest wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?  ¹²And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?  ¹³No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

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Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 16, 2007     

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