The 5th of November, 2022 is Saturday in the Thirty-First Week of Ordinary Time. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the 2022 Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: PHIL 4:10-19
The first reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Philippians.
But I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.
Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 112:1B-2, 5-6, 8A and 9
Response: Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh.
Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
R: Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh.
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.
R: Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh.
His heart is established. He will not be afraid.
R: Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh.
He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
R: Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh.
Gospel of the Day: LK 16:9-15
From the gospel verse according to Luke.
“I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
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 else he will hold to one and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.”
