The second great commandment is ‘love your neighbour as yourself’.  Our Lord tells us that all the other commandments flow from these two great commandments.  ‘Thou shalt not steal’ is a bottom line for love of neighbour – and implies that there can be no love where there is injustice.  Today’s Readings set before us various kinds of injustice that paper over naked theft.  Amos complains about those whom a desire for a ‘quick buck’ drives to give short measure or take advantage of the financial pressures on the poor.  The Gospel gives us a parable of a dishonest steward.  Caught out by a surprise audit he falsifies invoices to win friends among his master’s debtors but chooses a crafty way so that his master will have no come back.  He has been charging interest concealed by an inflated statement of the original loan contrary to the law against usury.  The master could only recover the money by admitting that this is what he was doing.  No wonder he praises the astuteness of the steward!  Jesus tells us that if we are to be trusted with greater things we must show our trustworthiness and honesty with the things of this world.  Injustice shown to our neighbour, whatever form it may take, renders us unworthy of God’s trust or gifts.