Saturday, November 15, 2014
33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year A
40TH SACERDOTAL ORDINATION OF FR ANTHONY NG
6:00 pm Multilingual Mass
First Reading
PROVERBS 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31
10 The truly capable woman -- who can find her? She is
far beyond the price of pearls.
11 Her husband's heart has confidence in her, from her he
will derive no little profit.
12 Advantage and not hurt she brings him all the days of
her life.
13 She selects wool and flax, she does her work with
eager hands.
19 She sets her hands to the distaff, her fingers grasp
the spindle.
20 She holds out her hands to the poor, she opens her
arms to the needy.
30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty empty; the woman who
fears Yahweh is the one to praise.
31 Give her a share in what her hands have worked for,
and let her works tell her praises at the city gates.
“The Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 128:1-2, 3, 4-5
1 [Song of Ascents] How blessed are all who fear Yahweh,
who walk in his ways!
2 Your own labours will yield you a living, happy and
prosperous will you be.
3 Your wife a fruitful vine in the inner places of your
house. Your children round your table like shoots of an olive tree.
4 Such are the blessings that fall on those who fear
Yahweh.
5 May Yahweh bless you from Zion! May you see Jerusalem
prosper all the days of your life,
Second Reading
First Thessalonians 5:1-6
1 About times and dates, brothers, there is no need to
write to you
2 for you are well aware in any case that the Day of the
Lord is going to come like a thief in the night.
3 It is when people are saying, 'How quiet and peaceful
it is' that sudden destruction falls on them, as suddenly as labour pains come
on a pregnant woman; and there is no escape.
4 But you, brothers, do not live in the dark, that the
Day should take you unawares like a thief.
5 No, you are all children of light and children of the
day: we do not belong to the night or to darkness,
6 so we should not go on sleeping, as everyone else
does, but stay wide awake and sober.
“The Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 25:14-30
14 'It is like a man about to go abroad who summoned his
servants and entrusted his property to them.
15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to a
third one, each in proportion to his ability. Then he set out on his journey.
16 The man who had received the five talents promptly
went and traded with them and made five more.
17 The man who had received two made two more in the same
way.
18 But the man who had received one went off and dug a
hole in the ground and hid his master's money.
19 Now a long time afterwards, the master of those
servants came back and went through his accounts with them.
20 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."
21 His master said to him, "Well done, good and
trustworthy servant; you have shown you are trustworthy in small things; I will
trust you with greater; come and join in your master's happiness."
22 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."
23 His master said to him, "Well done, good and
trustworthy servant; you have shown you are trustworthy in small things; I will
trust you with greater; come and join in your master's happiness."
24 Last came forward the man who had the single talent.
"Sir," said he, "I had heard you were a hard man, reaping where
you had not sown and gathering where you had not scattered;
25 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."
26 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?
27 Well then, you should have deposited my money with the
bankers, and on my return I would have got my money back with interest.
28 So now, take the talent from him and give it to the
man who has the ten talents.
29 For to everyone who has will be given more, and he
will have more than enough; but anyone who has not, will be deprived even of
what he has.
30 As for this good-for-nothing servant, throw him into
the darkness outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth."
“The Gospel of the Lord”
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