Daily Readings

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
I am not saying this as if out of need. For I have learned that, in whatever state I am, it is sufficient
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
Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me
Yet truly, you have done well by sharing in my tribulation
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
For you even sent to Thessalonica, once, and then a second time, for what was useful to me
It is not that I am seeking a gift. Instead, I seek the fruit that abounds to your benefit
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
And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus

Alleluia. Of the return of Haggai and Zachariah. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord. He will prefer his commandments exceedingly
His offspring will be powerful on the earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed
Pleasing is the man who shows mercy and lends. He will order his words with judgment
For he will not be disturbed in eternity

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
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
So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true
And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours
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.
But the Pharisees, who were greedy, were listening to all these things. And they ridiculed him
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