FAITHFULNESS IN LITTLE THINGS
Help me to know what I should do and do it
well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and give
you praise and glory now and for ever. Amen
A perfect wife, who can find her?
Her husband’s heart has confidence in her, from
her he will derive no little profit.
Advantage and not hurt she brings him all the
days of her life.
She is
always busy with wool and with flax, she does her work with eager hands.
She sets her hands to the distaff, her fingers
grasp the spindle.
She holds out her hand to the poor, she opens
her arms to the needy.
Charm is deceitful, and beauty empty; the woman
who is wise is the one to praise.
Give her a share in what her hands have worked
for, and let her works tell her praises at the city gates.
O BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO FEAR THE LORD
God will bring with him those who have died in Jesus
But it is not as if you live in the dark, my
brothers, for that Day to overtake you like a thief. No, you are all sons of
light and sons of the day: we do not belong to the night or to darkness, so we
should not go on sleeping, as everyone else does, but stay wide awake and
sober.
You have been faithful in small things: come and
join in your master's happiness
Jesus spoke this parable to his disciples: ‘The
kingdom of Heaven is like a man on his way abroad who summoned his servants and
entrusted his property to them. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to
a third one; each in proportion to his ability. Then he
set out.
‘The man who had received the five talents promptly went and traded with them and made five more. The man who had received two made two more in the same way. But the man who had received one went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.
‘Now a long time after, the master of those
servants came back and went through his accounts with them. The man who had
received the five talents came forward bringing five more. “Sir,” he said “you
entrusted me with five talents; here are five more that I have made.”
‘His master said to him, “Well done, good and
faithful servant; you have shown you can be faithful in small things, I will
trust you with greater; come and join in your master’s happiness.”
‘Next the man with the two talents came forward.
“Sir,” he said “you entrusted me with two talents; here are two more that I
have made.” His master said to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you
have shown you can be faithful in small things, I will trust you with greater; come
and join in your master’s happiness.”
‘Last came forward the man who had the one
talent. “Sir,” said he “I had heard you were a hard man, reaping where you have
not sown and gathering where you have not scattered; so I was afraid, and I
went off and hid your talent in the ground. Here it is; it was yours, you have
it back.” But his master answered him, “You wicked and lazy servant! So you
knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered?
Well then, you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my
return I would have recovered my capital with interest. So now, take the talent
from him and give it to the man who has the five talents. For to everyone who
has will be given more, and he will have more than enough; but from the man who
has not, even what he has will be taken away. As for this good-for-nothing
servant, throw him out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding
of teeth.”’
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