Saturday of the thirty-first week of Ordinary Time

Now I rejoice in the Lord exceedingly, that now at length your thought for me hath flourished again, as you did also think; but you were busied. ¹¹I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith. ¹²I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound: (everywhere, and in all things I am instructed) both to be full, and to be hungry; both to abound, and to suffer need. ¹³I can do all these things in him who strengtheneth me. ¹⁴Nevertheless you have done well in communicating to my tribulation. ¹⁵And you also know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but you only: ¹⁶For unto Thessalonica also you sent once and again for my use. ¹⁷Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that may abound to your account. ¹⁸But I have all, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. ¹⁹And may my God supply all your want, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

¹Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments. ²His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed. ⁵Acceptable is the man that showeth mercy and lendeth: he shall order his words with judgment: ⁶Because he shall not be moved for ever. ⁸His heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look over his enemies. ⁹He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.

℟ Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord.

And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings. ¹⁰He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little, is unjust also in that which is greater. ¹¹If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon; who will trust you with that which is the true? ¹²And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s; who will give you that which is your own? ¹³No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. ¹⁴Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. ¹⁵And he said to them: You are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is high to men, is an abomination before God.