September 21, 2025 – Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

+ From the Gospel according to Luke (16:11-13)

At that time, Jesus said to his disciples:
“A rich man had a manager, and charges were brought before him that this man was squandering his property. He called him and said, ‘What do I hear about you? Give an account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'”
The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking the management away from me? I cannot dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what I will do, so that, when I am dismissed from the management, people will welcome me into their homes.’
He called his master’s debtors one by one and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ He replied, ‘A hundred barrels of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.'” Then he said to another, “How much do you owe?” He replied, “A hundred measures of wheat.” He said to him, “Take your bill and write eighty.”
The master commended the dishonest manager for having acted shrewdly. For the children of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than the children of light.
And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth, so that when it fails, they will welcome you into the eternal homes.
He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. If then you have not been faithful in the dishonest wealth, who will entrust to you the true wealth? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

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