Saturday, 18th
November, 2017
33rd Sunday of Ordinary
Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
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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