Luke 16,9-15

‘And so I tell you this: use money, tainted as it is, to win you friends, and thus make sure that when it fails you, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.  Anyone who is trustworthy in little things is trustworthy in great; anyone who is dishonest in little things is dishonest in great.  If then you are not trustworthy with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you with genuine riches?  And if you are not trustworthy with what is not yours, who will give you what is your very own?  ‘No servant can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.’  The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and jeered at him.  He said to them, ‘You are the very ones who pass yourselves off as upright in people’s sight, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed in human eyes is loathsome in the sight of God.

The Saint of the Day: St Leonard of Noblac