Matthew 25:14-30

Today's Readings

Reading 1, 1 Th 4:9-11

 

⁹ As for brotherly love, there is no need to write to you about that, since you have yourselves learnt from God to love one another,

¹⁰ and in fact this is how you treat all the brothers throughout the whole of Macedonia. However, we do urge you, brothers, to go on making even greater progress

¹¹ and to make a point of living quietly, attending to your own business and earning your living, just as we told you to, 

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 98:1, 7-8, 9

 

¹ [Psalm] Sing a new song to Yahweh, for he has performed wonders, his saving power is in his right hand and his holy arm.

⁷ Let the sea thunder, and all that it holds, the world and all who live in it.

⁸ Let the rivers clap their hands, and the mountains shout for joy together,

⁹ at Yahweh's approach, for he is coming to judge the earth; he will judge the world with saving justice and the nations with fairness.

 

Gospel   

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."