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  Year A   All Quiet on the Western Front  (1930), ending For you yourselves are fully aware that  the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night (1Thess 5:2).   [Second Reading] Readings   (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa) Gospel   Matthew 25:14-30 or 25:14-15, 19-21  [Omit]  ( English Standard Version Anglicised) Jesus told his disciples this parable: “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.   To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.   [ He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.   So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.   But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ]   Now

Woman Sewing, Van Gogh [ Web Gallery of Art ] She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. (Proverbs 31:13, First Reading) Readings (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa) Gospel Matthew 25:14-30 [Shorter form, 14-15, 19-21] ( NRSV, Anglicised CatholicEd .)  Jesus told his disciples this parable: ‘For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. [The one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with them, and made five more talents. In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents. But the one who had received the one talent went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.] After a long time the master of those slaves c

Woman Sewing , Van Gogh Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands [ Web Gallery of Art ] She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands (Proverbs 31:13,  First reading ). Readings   (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Readings   (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa)  Gospel   Matthew 25:14-30 [14-15, 19-21]   ( New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition , Canada)   Jesus spoke this parable to his disciples: “For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them;    to one he gave five talents,   to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away .   [ The one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with them, and made five more talents.     In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents.     But the one who had received