First Reading
Proverbs Proverbs 31:10-13,19-20,30-31 A
perfect wife - who can find her?
CI: A perfect
wife – who can find her? She is far beyond the price of pearls.
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.
Responsorial Psalm: O blessed are those who fear the Lord
Second Reading .1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 God will bring with him those who have died in Jesus
You will not be expecting us to write anything to you, brothers, about ‘times and seasons’, since you know very well that the Day of the Lord is going to come like a thief in the night. It is when people are saying, ‘How quiet and peaceful it is’ that the worst suddenly happens, as suddenly as labour pains come on a pregnant woman; and there will be no way for anybody to evade it.
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.
Gospel Matthew 25:14-30 You have been faithful in small things: come and join in your
master's happiness
CDR: 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.”’
Lord Jesus I trust in you. Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. Angels of God pray for me. All Saints in heaven pray for me. My Guardian Angel pray for me.
Pray the Holy Rosary: Ave Maria.
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