 First Reading: (Isaiah 49:14-15)
Responsorial Psalm: Â (Psalms 62:2-3, 6-7, 8-9)
 Second Reading: (1Corinthians 4:1-5)
Gospel: (Matthew 6:24-34)
First Reading: (Isaiah 49:14-15)
Zion was saying, ‘Yahweh has abandoned me, the Lord has forgotten me.’
Can a woman forget her baby at the breast, feel no pity for the child she has borne? Even if these were to forget, I shall not forget you.
Responsorial Psalm: Â (Psalms 62:2-3, 6-7, 8-9)
he alone is my rock, my safety, my stronghold so that I stand unshaken.
How much longer will you set on a victim, all together, intent on murder, like a rampart already leaning over, a wall already damaged?
He alone is my rock, my safety, my stronghold, so that I stand unwavering.
In God is my safety and my glory, the rock of my strength. In God is my refuge; trust in him, you people, at all times.
Pour out your hearts to him, God is a refuge for us.
Ordinary people are a mere puff of wind, important people a delusion; set both on the scales together, and they are lighter than a puff of wind.
Second Reading: (1Corinthians 4:1-5)
People should think of us as Christ’s servants, stewards entrusted with the mysteries of God. In such a matter, what is expected of stewards is that each one should be found trustworthy.
It is of no importance to me how you or any other human court may judge me: I will not even be the judge of my own self. It is true that my conscience does not reproach me, but that is not enough to justify me: it is the Lord who is my judge.
For that reason, do not judge anything before the due time, until the Lord comes; he will bring to light everything that is hidden in darkness and reveal the designs of all hearts. Then everyone will receive from God the appropriate commendation.
Gospel: (Matthew 6:24-34)
‘No one 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.
‘That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and what you are to wear. Surely life is more than food, and the body more than clothing! Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not worth much more than they are? Can any of you, however much you worry, add one single cubit to your span of life? And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin; yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his royal robes was clothed like one of these.
Now if that is how God clothes the wild flowers growing in the field which are there today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more look after you, you who have so little faith? So do not worry; do not say, “What are we to eat? What are we to drink? What are we to wear?” It is the gentiles who set their hearts on all these things.
Your heavenly Father knows you need them all. Set your hearts on his kingdom first, and on God’s saving justice, and all these other things will be given you as well.
So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.’
