When I was in the Holy Land, the guide told us that Jesus would never have been speaking on the heights but lower with his back to the sea so the wind would carry his voice to the crowd. We forget that there were no michrophones in those days and so Jesus taught from the shore, or even from a boat at times.
The first reading today is from the Prophet Amos: 8: 4-7
Amos says: "Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land!" and then Amos says that the Lord will never forget a thing they have done. I am thinking of the way we are treating the migrants and the refugees who are needy.
The Reponsorial Psalm is "Praise the Lord, who lifts up the poor."
The second reading is from Paul's first Letter to Timothy: 2:1-8
The Gospel is Luke 16: 1-13 but the shorter form in 10-13
It is a difficult Gospel to understand as Jesus seems to be praising the unjust steward; really, Jesus is just praising the ingenuity of the steward. The last part of the Gospel shows us that we cannot serve both God and mammon.
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