Daily Reading for Sunday, March 2nd, 2014

Gospel, Matthew 6:24-34

²⁴ '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.

²⁵ '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!

²⁶ 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?

²⁷ Can any of you, however much you worry, add one single cubit to your span of life?

²⁸ And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin;

²⁹ yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his royal robes was clothed like one of these.

³⁰ 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?

³¹ So do not worry; do not say, "What are we to eat? What are we to drink? What are we to wear?"

³² It is the gentiles who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all.

³³ Set your hearts on his kingdom first, and on God's saving justice, and all these other things will be given you as well.

³⁴ So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.'

Reading 2, First Corinthians 4:1-5

¹ People should think of us as Christ's servants, stewards entrusted with the mysteries of God.

² In such a matter, what is expected of stewards is that each one should be found trustworthy.

³ 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.

⁴ 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.

⁵ 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.

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