Reading 3, Jas 5:1-6 : Warning to wealthy.

James 5
1	Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.
2	Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
3	Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days.
4	Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
5	You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
6	You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist you.

Gospel, Lk 18:25-30 : Eternal life for those who renounce everything

 

Luke 18
25	For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
26	Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"
27	But he said, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."
28	And Peter said, "Lo, we have left our homes and followed you."
29	And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there is no man who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,
30	who will not receive manifold more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life