REFLECTION FOR TODAY
The Servant of Charity must go to bed each night so tired from work that he will think he has been beaten!
-- St. Louis Guanella
READINGS FOR TODAY
First Reading: 1 Timothy 6:2-12
(False Teaching and True Riches)
2 Slaves belonging to Christian masters must not despise them, for they are believers too. Instead, they are to serve them even better, because those who benefit from their work are believers whom they love. You must teach and preach these things.
3 Whoever teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the teaching of our religion
4 is swollen with pride and knows nothing. He has an unhealthy desire to argue and quarrel about words, and this brings on jealousy, disputes, insults, evil suspicions,
5 and constant arguments from people whose minds do not function and who no longer have the truth. They think that religion is a way to become rich.
6 Well, religion does make us very rich, if we are satisfied with what we have.
7 What did we bring into the world? Nothing! What can we take out of the world? Nothing!
8 So then, if we have food and clothes, that should be enough for us.
9 But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and are caught in the trap of many foolish and harmful desires, which pull them down to ruin and destruction.
10 For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil. Some have been so eager to have it that they have wandered away from the faith and have broken their hearts with many sorrows.
11 But you, man of God, avoid all these things. Strive for righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.
12 Run your best in the race of faith, and win eternal life for yourself; for it was to this life that God called you when you firmly professed your faith before many witnesses.
Psalms: Psalm 49:6-10, 17-20
6 by evil people who trust in their riches and boast of their great wealth.
7 We can never redeem ourselves; we cannot pay God the price for our lives,
8 because the payment for a human life is too great. What we could pay would never be enough
9 to keep us from the grave, to let us live forever.
10 Anyone can see that even the wise die, as well as the foolish and stupid. They all leave their riches to their descendants.
17 he cannot take it with him when he dies; his wealth will not go with him to the grave.
18 Even if someone is satisfied with this life and is praised because he is successful,
19 he will join all his ancestors in death, where the darkness lasts forever.
20 Our greatness cannot keep us from death; we will still die like the animals.
Gospel: Luke 8:1-3
(Women Who Helped Jesus / Women Who Accompanied Jesus)
1 Some time later Jesus traveled through towns and villages, preaching the Good News about the Kingdom of God. The twelve disciples went with him,
2 and so did some women who had been healed of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (who was called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had been driven out;
3 Joanna, whose husband Chuza was an officer in Herod's court; and Susanna, and many other women who used their own resources to help Jesus and his disciples.
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