Saturday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 1.26-31

Look at your calling, brothers and sisters,
how not many are wise according to the flesh,
not many mighty, and not many noble,
but God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise,
and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong,
and God chose the lowly of the world, and the despised, the nothings,
that he might bring to nothing the things that are,
that no flesh should boast before God.
From him you are in Christ Jesus,
who was made wisdom for us wisdom from God,
and righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,
so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

Responsorial – Psalm 33.12-13, 18-19, 20-21 Resp. 12

R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen for his own.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
The Lord looks from heaven.
He sees all the sons of men.

R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen for his own.

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
to deliver their soul from death,
to keep them alive in famine.

R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen for his own.

Our soul has waited for the Lord.
He is our help and our shield.
For our heart rejoices in him,
because we have trusted in his holy name.

R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen for his own.

Gospel – Matthew 25.14-30

Jesus said to his disciples:
The kingdom of heaven is like a human going away,
who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one,
to each according to his abilities.
Then he went away.

Immediately, he who had received the five talents
went and traded with them and earned another five.
and likewise, he who had received two earned another two,
but he who had received one
went away and dug in the ground, and hid his master's money.

After a long time,
the master of those servants came back
and settled accounts with them.
So he who had received five talents came forward
and brought the other five talents,
saying, ‘Master, you entrusted me with five talents.
Behold, I have earned another five talents.’
His master said to him,
‘Well done, good and faithful servant.
you have been faithful over a few things,
I will make you ruler over many things.
Enter into your master’s joy!’

And he who had received two talents came forward
saying, ‘Master, you entrusted me with two talents.
Behold, I have earned another two talents.’
His master said to him,
‘Well done, good and faithful servant.
you have been faithful over a few things,
I will make you ruler over many things.
Enter into your master’s joy!’

And he who had received one talent came forward,
saying, ‘Master, I knew you, that you are a hard human,
reaping where you had not planted,
and gathering from where you had not scattered,
and I was afraid, so I went away
and hid your talent in the ground.
Behold, you have what is yours.’

Answering, his master said to him,
‘You useless and cowardly servant.
So you knew that I reap where I had not planted
and gather where I had not scattered, did you?
The you should have put my money in the bank,
and then, when I came back,
I would have received mine plus interest.

Therefore, take the talent from him,
and give it to the one who has ten talents.
For all who have will be rewarded,
and have an abundance,
but the one who does not have,
that which they have will be taken from them.
And expel the unprofitable servant
into the darkness outside,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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