Reading 1, 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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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 37:3-4, 5-6, 27-28, 39-40

³ Put your trust in Yahweh and do right, make your home in the land and live secure.

⁴ Make Yahweh your joy and he will give you your heart's desires.

⁵ Commit your destiny to Yahweh, be confident in him, and he will act,

⁶ making your uprightness clear as daylight, and the justice of your cause as the noon.

²⁷ Turn your back on evil and do good, you will have a home for ever,

²⁸ for Yahweh loves justice and will not forsake his faithful. Evil-doers will perish eternally, the descendants of the wicked be annihilated,

³⁹ The upright have Yahweh for their Saviour, their refuge in times of trouble;

⁴⁰ Yahweh helps them and rescues them, he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them because they take refuge in him.

Gospel, Luke 5:33-39

³³ They then said to him, 'John's disciples are always fasting and saying prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees, too, but yours go on eating and drinking.'

³⁴ Jesus replied, 'Surely you cannot make the bridegroom's attendants fast while the bridegroom is still with them?

³⁵ But the time will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them; then, in those days, they will fast.'

³⁶ He also told them a parable, 'No one tears a piece from a new cloak to put it on an old cloak; otherwise, not only will the new one be torn, but the piece taken from the new will not match the old.

³⁷ 'And nobody puts new wine in old wineskins; otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins and run to waste, and the skins will be ruined.

³⁸ No; new wine must be put in fresh skins.

³⁹ And nobody who has been drinking old wine wants new. "The old is good," he says.'

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