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cDataBreve = "09/21/2025"
cDataEstera= "Sunday, September 21"
cLingua = "en"
cLinguaCode= "EN"
cTitolo = "Liturgy of the Sunday"
cIcona = "domenica.jpg"
cAlleluia1 = "Yesterday I was buried with Christ,
today I rise with you who are risen.
With you I was crucified;
remember me, Lord, in your kingdom.
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cAlleluia2 = "Yesterday I was buried with Christ,
today I rise with you who are risen.
With you I was crucified;
remember me, Lord, in your kingdom.
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cTempo = "ORDINARIO"
cPreghiera = "domenica"
cSalmo = "112"
cVersetti1 = "Amos 8,4-7"
cVersetti2 = "1 Timothy 2,1-8"
cVersettiV = "Luke 16,1-13"
cLettura1 = "Listen to this, you who crush the needy and reduce the oppressed to nothing, you who say, 'When will New Moon be over so that we can sell our corn, and Sabbath, so that we can market our wheat? Then, we can make the bushel-measure smaller and the shekel-weight bigger, by fraudulently tampering with the scales. We can buy up the weak for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals, and even get a price for the sweepings of the wheat.' Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, 'Never will I forget anything they have done.'"
cLettura2 = "I urge then, first of all that petitions, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving should be offered for everyone, for kings and others in authority, so that we may be able to live peaceful and quiet lives with all devotion and propriety. To do this is right, and acceptable to God our Saviour: he wants everyone to be saved and reach full knowledge of the truth. For there is only one God, and there is only one mediator between God and humanity, himself a human being, Christ Jesus, who offered himself as a ransom for all. This was the witness given at the appointed time, of which I was appointed herald and apostle and -- I am telling the truth and no lie -- a teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth. In every place, then, I want the men to lift their hands up reverently in prayer, with no anger or argument."
cLetturaV = "He also said to his disciples, 'There was a rich man and he had a steward who was denounced to him for being wasteful with his property. He called for the man and said, "What is this I hear about you? Draw me up an account of your stewardship because you are not to be my steward any longer." Then the steward said to himself, "Now that my master is taking the stewardship from me, what am I to do? Dig? I am not strong enough. Go begging? I should be too ashamed. Ah, I know what I will do to make sure that when I am dismissed from office there will be some to welcome me into their homes." 'Then he called his master's debtors one by one. To the first he said, "How much do you owe my master?" "One hundred measures of oil," he said. The steward said, "Here, take your bond; sit down and quickly write fifty." To another he said, "And you, sir, how much do you owe?" "One hundred measures of wheat," he said. The steward said, "Here, take your bond and write eighty." 'The master praised the dishonest steward for his astuteness. For the children of this world are more astute in dealing with their own kind than are the children of light.' '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.'"
cMemoria = "Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Feast of Saint Matthew, apostle and evangelist."
cOmelia = "The Gospel of Luke, which continues to accompany us in these Sundays, opens today at chapter 16 where the evangelist reports some parables addressed not to the Pharisees, like in chapter 15, but to his disciples. The parable we heard speaks of a manager who is accused in front of his master of bad administration. When the master calls the manager, he does not attempt any defence. He knows well that he is guilty: the scandal is known to all. But in front of the sad destiny awaiting him, he does not give up. He calls his master's debtors and cheats again: he discounts the amount of money they owe. It is a risky plan, but it is "efficient" to save himself and avoid a harsh condition of life. His plan succeeds and, though the paradoxicality of the reasoning is clear, the amazed evangelist notes: "His master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly." It is obvious that the master does not praise the corrupted behaviour of the manager who is put among the "children of this age" and not among the "children of light" who, however in the context of the parable are said to be lazy and hopeless. On the contrary the audacity and shrewdness of the unfaithful manager in securing his salvation is what Jesus underlines, rather holds up as an example for the disciples.
Many commentators found this passage problematic so much so they hypothesized corrections to the gospel text as they thought that the praise of the unfaithful manager was impossible. And yet, dear brothers and dear sisters, in this page we find precious teachings also for us. Despite its paradoxicality, the story of the unfaithful manager Is not so foreign to us. He knows well that he had been unfaithful so much he does not even try to justify himself. In fact he acknowledges his own mistakes and shortcomings. He knows, in short, that he is not right and that he deserves to be fired. But if we look at ourselves, dear brothers and dear sisters, who among us can say we are right before the Lord? Who among us can say that we have fully administered the Gospel of love that has been delivered to us? Jesus invites us to be wise and shrewd in order to attain salvation. And he shows us the way when he says: "And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes."
The tradition of the Fathers reads these words as an exhortation to the disciples to make every effort to serve the poor. Indeed, to procure them as friends. It is they, in fact, who will "welcome us into the eternal homes.""
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