Deacon:  Wisdom. Stand up. Hear the Holy Gospel.

Priest:    Peace to you all. 

People:   And to your spirit.

Deacon:   A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke [12:16-21]

People:  Glory to You Lord. Glory to You.

Priest:   Listen.

Deacon:

At that time, Jesus told them a parable.

'Once there was a rich man, who had a good harvest from his land. He thought to himself, “What am I  going to do. I don’t have enough room to store my crops.”

'Then he said, “This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and store all my grain and my goods in them. And I will say to my soul, ‘My soul, you have plenty of good things laid up for many years to come. Relax, eat, drink, party’.”

'But God said to him, “Fool. This very night the demand will be made for your soul. And this store of yours, whose will it be then?”

'This is how it is, when someone stores up treasure for himself, instead of becoming rich in God’s ways.'

People: Glory to You Lord, Glory to You.