恭讀聖路加福音 16:1-13
那時候，耶穌對門徒說：
「曾有一個富翁，他有一個管家。有人在主人前，告發這管家，指他揮霍了主人的財物。主人便把管家叫來，向他說：我怎麼聽說你有這樣的事？把你管理家務的賬目，交出來，因為你不能再作管家了。
「那管家自言自語說：主人要撤去我管家的職務，我可做什麼呢？掘地吧，我沒有氣力；討飯吧，我又害羞。我知道我要做什麼，好叫人們，在我被撤去管家職務之後，收留我在他們家中。
「於是，他把主人的債戶一一叫來。給第一個說：你欠我主人多少？那人說：一百桶油。管家向他說：拿你的賬單，坐下，快寫作五十。隨後，又給另一個說：你欠多少？那人說：一百石麥子。管家向他說：拿你的賬單，寫作八十。
「主人於是稱讚這個不義的管家，辦事精明。這些今世之子，應付自己的世代，比光明之子，更加精明。
「我告訴你們：要用不義的錢財，交結朋友，為在你們匱乏的時候，好叫他們收留你們到永遠的帳幕裡。
「在小事上忠信的，在大事上也忠信；在小事上不義的，在大事上也不義。那麼，如果你們在不義的錢財上，不忠信，誰還會把真實的錢財，委託給你們呢？如果你們在別人的財物上，不忠信，誰還會把屬於你們的，交給你們呢？
「沒有一個家僕，能事奉兩個主人。他或是要恨這一個，而愛那一個，或是要依附這一個，而輕忽那一個。你們不能事奉天主，而又事奉錢財。」
—上主的話。
(25th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 16:1-13
Jesus said to his disciples, “A rich man had a steward who was reported to him for squandering his property. He summoned him and said, ‘What is this I hear about you? Prepare a full account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be my steward.’ The steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking the position of steward away from me? I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg. I know what I shall do so that, when I am removed from the stewardship, they may welcome me into their homes.’ He called in his master’s debtors one by one. To the first he said, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ He replied, ‘One hundred measures of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note. Sit down and quickly write one for fifty.’ Then to another the steward said, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘One hundred kors of wheat.’ The steward said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note; write one for eighty.’ And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. “For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones; and the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in great ones. If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who will trust you with true wealth? If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours? No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon.”
—The Gospel of the Lord.
Cantonese Homily
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