The 25th Sunday of the Year
Amos 8:4-7; 1 Tim 2:1-8; Lk 16:1-13 (Year C)
The Prophet Amos, who confronted the extravagant excesses of Israel’s northern kingdom in the 8th-century BC, could well have claimed to have been the most outspoken of Israel’s prophets. His strident denunciations of the rich had disturbed an insensitive, self-indulgent elite.
“Listen to this, you who trample the needy and try to suppress the poor, you who say ‘We can buy up the poor for money, and the needy for a pair of sandals.’ The Lord swears, ‘Never will I forget a single thing that you have done.’ ”
