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32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Norma Castilho on 06-11-2005 | Parish | Comments Off 


For the Week of November 6 - 12, 2005

Stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour. — Matthew 25:13

VETERAN’S DAY HOLIDAY: The Rectory office will be closed Friday, Nov. 11 in observance of Veteran’s Day. We will reopen on Saturday morning as usual.

ELECTION DAY-NOVEMBER 8, 2005: The parish urges each of you to exercise your right to vote. For your consideration, the recommendations on the ballot propositions from the Catholic Bishops of California may be found at their web site at http://www.cacatholic.org/

NEXT WEEK’S SUNDAY SALES COORDINATORS: Latino Choir (coffee & donuts)

ATTENTION LECTORS:
– Message from Valerie Milano: It is almost time to purchase new St. Joseph Handbooks for Proclaimers of the Word. I have the form here and can order them for you if you would like. They are $9.95 plus tax and shipping of $6.50-a total of $16.45. If you would like one, and I highly recommend them for your preparation at home before your scheduled Mass, please mail me a check or leave on in my in name in the rectory office. I will let you know when they arrive.

CHOIR NEWS: Next Saturday, November 12th at 11am, the Blessed Sacrament Music Department will present “Saturday Morning Music” a free monthly music class for children and their parents. The program offers free basic music theory lessons and explores different musical instruments and styles. This class is open to all age groups and you do not need to have any previous music training. For more information, or to RSVP, please call the Music Department at 323-462-6311 x 312. Bring the whole family and have a fun, musical morning with us!

MASS INTENTIONS
Sunday, November 6 - 9:00 Bernardin Holsey; 11:00 Living & Deceased
Members of the Parish; 1:00 Nicolas Arinaga
Monday, November 7 - 8:00 Alex Early; 12:00 All Souls Novena
Tuesday, November 8 - 8:00 Carmen Espinoza; 12:00 All Souls Novena
Wednesday, November 9 - 8:00 Pedro Antonio Gómez; 12:00 All Souls Novena
Thursday, November 10 - 8:00 Romeo Leong-on, Jr.; 12:00 All Souls Novena
Friday, November 11 - 8:00 Vic Mina; 12:00 All Souls Novena; 7:30 Ofelia Vasquez
Saturday, November 12 - 8:00 Ann Marie Farrell, 2nd Intention All Souls; 12:00 All Souls Novena

PRESIDERS FOR NEXT WEEK:
Sat/Sab Nov. 12 - 5:30 pm Fr. Mike Mandala
Sun/Dom Nov. 13 - 7:30 am Fr. Herry; 9:00 am Fr. E. C. Sebastian; 11:00 am Fr. Mike Mandala; 1:00 pm Fr. E. C. Sebastian; 5:30 pm Fr. Wayne Negrete; 7:00 pm Fr. E. C. Sebastian

MISSALS ON SALE: missals are on sale after the Mass and at the parish office at $4.00 each.

Changes in Saturday and Sunday Mass Schedules at Blessed Sacrament:
Our Mission Statement for Blesses Sacrament, states, “We celebrate our individual, family, ethnic and cultural diversity.” As a parish and school, we are dedicated to live out this goal.
At Blessed Sacrament we are presently doing more weddings and quiceanearas on Saturday and celebrating more parish-wide liturgical events than ever in our history. In addition, we would like to offer more communal services of the Sacraments of Reconciliation and of Anointing of
the Sick. Given this increased liturgical activity, we have decided that we have to focus our ministerial resources and adjust our weekend Mass schedule.
After much discussion with the Liturgy Committee and with the Pastoral Staff, and after much anguish and prayer, we have had decided to make the following changes on an experimental basis:
On the first Sunday of Advent, November 27, we will discontinue the Sunday 7:00 PM Spanish Mass.
Sometime in January 2006, we will discontinue the Saturday 5:30 PM English Mass. At the same time we will inaugurate a Saturday 6:00 PM Mass which will be multi-cultural and more reflective of the various languages and cultures present in our parish.
We apologize for any inconvenience that these changes may cause. We are hopeful that the new schedule will improve the quality of our liturgical services to the whole community.
Thank you for your understanding.
Gratefully,
Michael J. Mandala, S. J.
Pastor

SOCIAL SERVICES OFFICE: Survival Kits (Continuation emergency supplies at work and in the car)
– Car: Nylon tote or day pack, bottle water, non-perishable food, manual can opener, transistor radio, flash light and extra batteries, first aid kit, gloves, blankets or sleeping bags, sealable plastic bags, moist towelettes, small tool kit, matches and lighter, walking shoes and extra
socks, Change of clothes, cash (small bills and coins).
– At work: Dry food such as candy bars, dried fruit, jerky and crackers, water or orange juice, tennis shoes or walking shoes, first aid kit, flash light and portable radio with extra batteries, matches, small and large plastic bags, toiletries, entertainment pack like reading material
or games. (This information was taken partially from an article in Los Angeles time.)
Starting Nov. 1st we are assisting with the bills from the Gas Company. This program usually runs from February to April but this year has started early due to the high cost of the fuel.

REMEMBRANCE BOOK: Our parish “Remembrance Book”, for the names of our beloved deceased, will be available near the main altar. Please come and write the names of your deceased family and friends in the book. We shall pray for them at all our Masses during November.

CARNIVAL
Hundreds of people came together to make our Carnival 2005 a wonderful success. We want to thank each and everyone who participated in this spectacular experience of community and fund raising for the School and the Parish.
We fully expect that the Captains of each of the game and food booths will thank your own volunteers in your own way.
We in turn want to thank the Captains for the extra work that you do to make the Carnival fun and financially rewarding.
We welcome you to make any comments or suggestions for Carnival 2006 and leave in the rectory. We netted $67,400 this year and $52,618 in 2004.
Thank you one and all,
Valerie L. Milano, Carnival Chair
Michael J. Mandala, S.J., Pastor

SCHOOL - TOP SELLERS OF RAFFLE BOOKS / ESTUDIANTES QUE VENDIERON MAS TALONARIOS DE RIFAS DEL CARNAVAL
1ST Place / Primer Lugar : Cristina Gonzalez - 31 books (Grade 5)
2ND Place / Segundo Lugar : Michael Morales - 15 books (Grade 7)

READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: Wisdom 1:1-7; Luke 17:1-6
Tuesday: Wis 2:23 - 3:9; Luke 17:7-10
Wednesday: Ezekiel 47:1-2,12; 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17; John 2:13-22
Thursday: Wisdom 7:22b - 8:1; Luke 17:20-25
Friday: Wisdom 13:1-9; Luke 17:26-37
Saturday: Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9; Luke 18:1-8
Sunday: Prv 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31; Ps 128; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6; Matthew 25:14-30 [14-15, 19-21]

FINANCE CORNER: Our income last week was -
Regular Collection $8,319.50
Other income/donations $3,479.00
Total weekly income $11,798.50
2nd Collection World Mission Sunday $1,257.00
The average expenses for the parish, including payment of the debt, are $12,800.00 weekly. Thank you for your continued support.

LITURGIES CELEBRATIONS/CELEBRACIONES LITURGICAS
– Martyrs of UCA, EL Salvador/Martires de El Salvador. Celebration will take place weekend of Nov. 12-13 at all the Masses Celebraremos el martirio de los Jesuitas y sus companeros en El Salvador durante todas las Misas del fin de semana
– Thanksgiving Service. Thursday (Jueves) November 24, 10:30am Multi-lingual Service
– Advent Reconciliation Service. Monday, (Lunes) December 5-7:00pm

LA FUNDACION: La sabiduria es la fundacion y la justicia el trabajo sin la cual la fundacion no puede ser duradera. — San Ambrosio

FERIADO DEL DIA DE LOS VETERANOS DE LAS GUERRAS: El Viernes 11 de Nov la
rectoria estara cerrada en observacion del Feriado de los Veteranos de Guerra. Reabriremos el Sabado 12 en nuestro horario de costumbre.

DIA DE LAS ELECCIONES-MARTES 8 DE NOVIEMBRE: La parroquia urge a todos sus feligreses a ejercer su derecho de votar en la proximas elecciones del Martes 8 de Noviembre. Les recomendamos lean, se informen y consideren las proposiciones que se encuentran en la balota para asi tomar una decision bien informada. Cada uno de nosotros podemos hacer la
diferencia con nuestro voto. Las necesidades y/o reclamos de nuestra comunidad solo pueden ser solucionados mediante nuestro voto, HAGAMOSNOS PRESENTE!!!

LIBRO DE MEMORIAS DE LAS ALMAS: Nuestro Libro de Memorias, para que en el inscriban los nombres de sus seres queridos ya fallecidos, estara cerca del altar mayor. Por favor vengan y escriban los nombres de sus seres queridos ya fallecidos en este libro. Durante todas nuestras Misas del mes de Noviembre rezaremos por ellos.

MISALES A LA VENTA: Misales para el 2006 ya estan a la venta en la oficina de la rectoria al precio de $4.00 cada uno.

COORDINADORES VENTAS DE LOS DOMINGOS LA PROXIMA SEMANA: Coro Latino (cafe y donuts)

CAMBIOS EN LOS HORARIOS DE LA MISAS DEL SABADO Y DOMINGO EN LA PARROQUIA DEL SANTISIMO SACRAMENTO
La Declaracion de Mision Parroquial de la Parroquia del Santisimo Sacramento dice: “Celebramos nuestra individualidad, familia, origen y diversidad cultural.” Como parroquia y escuela, estamos dedicados a vivir este objetivo.
Aqui en la Parroquia del Santisimo Sacramento estamos celebrando mas bodas y quinceaneras los Sabados y ademas estamos teniendo mas eventos liturgicos envolviendo a toda la comunidad que en ninguna otra epoca de nuestra historia. Tambien, queremos ofrecer mas servicios comunales del Sacramento de Reconciliacion y del Sacramento de la Uncion de los Enfermos. Dado este aumento de actividad liturgica, hemos decidido que debemos enfocar nuestros recursos ministeriales y hacer un ajuste en el horario de las Misas del fin de semana.
Despues de muchas conversaciones y reuniones con el Comite de Liturgia y con el Equipo Pastoral, y despues de mucha angustia y oraciones, hemos decidido hacer los siguientes cambios a modo de experiencia:
A partir del primer Domingo de Adviento, 27 de Noviembre, descontinuaremos la Misa en Espanol de las 7:00pm del dia Domingo.
Durante el mes de Enero del 2006 (la fecha exacta no ha sido fijada todavia) - descontinuaremos la Misa en Ingles del Sabado a las 5:30pm. Al mismo tiempo, ofreceremos una Misa el Sabado a las 6:00pm que tendra un caracter multi-cultural y pensamos que esto reflejara mejor los diferentes idiomas y culturas que componen nuestra parroquia en el momento.
Les pedimos disculpas por si este cambio les ocasiona algun tipo de inconveniencia. Tenemos la esperanza que este nuevo horario mejore la cualidad de nuestros servicios liturgicos a nivel de comunidad.
Gracias por su comprension.
Michael J. Mandala, S.J.
Pastor

SERVICIOS SOCIALES: (Continuacin de articulos de emergencia para mantener en el trabajo y en el automovil)
– Automovil: una maleta pequena de nylon, agua embotellada, comida enlatada, abridor de latas manual, radio portatil, lampara de mano con baterias extras, guantes con un pequeno paquete de primeros auxilios. frazadas o sleeping bags, bolsas plasticas con cierre automatico, toallas deshechables, una pequena caja de heramientas, fosforos y encendedores, zapatos para caminar, calcetines, un cambio de ropa, dinero de baja denominacion y monedas.
– En el trabajo: frutas secas como dulces, jerky y galletas saladas, agua o jugo de naranja, zapatos tenis o zapatos para caminar, un pequeno paquete de primeros auxilios, radio portatil, lampara de mano con baterias extras, fosforos, bolsas de basura grandes y pequenas, productos
de bano, un paquete de entretenimiento con material de lectura o juegos.
Esta informacion fue parcialmente tomada de un articulo que aparecio en Los Angeles Time.
Desde el 1o de Noviembre estamos dando asistencia con las facturas de la Compania de Gas. Generalmente este programa corre de Febrero a Abril pero este ano por los altos precios del gas natural, el programa se inicio mas temprano.

CARNAVAL
Cientos de personas trabajaron juntas y sin desmayo para hacer del Carnaval del 2005 un suceso completo.
Deseamos agradecer a todas y cada una de las personas que participaron en esta fabulosa experiencia de comunidad y recaudacion de fondos para la escuela y la parroquia. Esperamos que los Capitanes de cada tombola y/o puesto de comida agradezcan a sus respectivos voluntarios directamente.
Nosotros, la Comitiva del Carnaval, queremos agradecer publicamente a todos los Capitanes por su arduo trabajo para poder hacer del Carnaval una experiencia agradable y positiva financieramente. Nos gustaria recibir sus comentarios y/o algunas sugerencias para el Carnaval del 2006. Pueden dejar sus comentarios/sugerencias en la rectoria.
Este ano nuestra ganancia neta fue de $67,400; el ano pasado la ganancia neta fue de $52,618.
Gracias,
Valerie L. Milano, Carnival Chair
Michael J. Mandala, S.J., Pastor

LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA
Lunes: Sab 1:1-7; Lc 17:1-6
Martes: Sab 2:23 - 3:9; Lc 17:7-10
Miercoles: Ezekiel 47:1-2,12; 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17; John 2:13-22
Jueves: Sab 7:22b - 8:1; Lc 17:20-25
Viernes: Sab 13:1-9; Lc 17:26-37
Sabado: Sab 18:14-16; 19:6-9; Lc 18:1-8
Domingo: Proverbs 31:10-13,30-31; Sal 128(127); 1 TEsther 5:1-6; Matthew 25:14-30 [14-15, 19-21]

RINCON FINANCIERO: Nuestro ingreso de la semana pasada fue -
Colecta Regular $8,319.50
Otros ingresos/donaciones $3,479.00
Total de ingresos $11,798.50
2da Colecta-Dia Mundial de las Misiones $1,257.00
El promedio de gastos de la parroquia, incluyendo el pago de la deuda, es de $12,800.00 semanales. Gracias por su continuo apoyo.

Matthew 25:13
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13Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.
Wisdom 1:1-7
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1Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in simplicity of heart.
2For he is found by them that tempt him not: and he sheweth himself to them that have faith in him.
3For perverse thoughts separate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise:
4For wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins.
5For the Holy Spirit of discipline will flee from the deceitful, and will withdraw himself from thoughts that are without understanding, and he shall not abide when iniquity cometh in.
6For the spirit of wisdom is benevolent, and will not acquit the evil speaker from his lips: for God is witness of his reins, and he is a true searcher of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
7For the spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world: and that, which containeth all things, hath knowledge of the voice.
Luke 17:1-6
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1And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come: but woe to him through whom they come.
2It were better for him, that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.
3Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance, forgive him.
4And if he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day be converted unto thee, saying, I repent; forgive him.
5And the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith.
6And the Lord said: If you had faith like to a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this mulberry tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you.
Luke 17:7-10
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7But which of you having a servant ploughing, or feeding cattle, will say to him, when he is come from the field: Immediately go, sit down to meat:
8And will not rather say to him: Make ready my supper, and gird thyself, and serve me, whilst I eat and drink, and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink?
9Doth he thank that servant, for doing the things which he commanded him?
10I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.
Ezekiel 47:1-2,12
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1And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: for the forefront, of the house looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the altar.
2And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and he caused me to turn to the way without the outward gate to the way that looked toward the east: and behold there ran out waters on the right side.
12And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.
1 Corinthians 3:9
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9For we are God’s coadjutors: you are God’s husbandry; you are God’s building.
John 2:13-22
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13And the pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
15And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.
16And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.
17And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
18The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?
19Jesus answered, and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
21But he spoke of the temple of his body.
22When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples remembered, that he had said this, and they believed the scripture, and the word that Jesus had said.
Wisdom 7:22
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22For in her is the spirit of understanding: holy, one, manifold, subtile, eloquent, active, undefiled, sure, sweet, loving that which is good, quick, which nothing hindereth, beneficent,
Luke 17:20-25
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20And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come? he answered them, and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there. For lo, the kingdom of God is within you.
22And he said to his disciples: The days will come, when you shall desire to see one day of the Son of man; and you shall not see it.
23And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them:
24For as the lightening that lighteneth from under heaven, shineth unto the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day.
25But first he must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation.
Wisdom 13:1-9
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1But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman:
2But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world.
3With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things.
4Or if they admired their power and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:
5For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.
6But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.
7For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are persuaded that the things are good which are seen.
8But then again they are not to be pardoned.
9For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?
Luke 17:26-37
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26And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27They did eat and drink, they married wives, and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark: and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28Likewise as it came to pass, in the days of Lot: they did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built.
29And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed.
31In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back.
32Remember Lot’s wife.
33Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it, shall preserve it.
34I say to you: in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35Two women shall be grinding together: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left: two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be keft.
36They answering, say to him: Where, Lord?
37Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.
Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9
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1814For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,
15Thy almighty word leapt down from heaven from thy royal throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction.
16With a sharp sword carrying thy unfeigned commandment, and he stood and filled all things with death, and standing on the earth reached even to heaven.
196For every creature according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, obeying thy commandments, that thy children might be kept without hurt.
7For a cloud overshadowed their camp, and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea a way without hinderance, and out of the great deep a springing field:
8Through which all the nation passed which was protected with thy hand, seeing thy miracles and wonders.
9For they fed on their food like horses, and they skipped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.
Luke 18:1-8
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1And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray, and not to faint,
2Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God, nor regarded man.
3And there was a certain widow in that city, and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary.
4And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within himself: Although I fear not God, nor regard man,
5Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me.
6And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith.
7And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night: and will he have patience in their regard?
8I say to you, that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?
1 Thessalonians 5:1-6
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1But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not, that we should write to you;
2For yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall so come, as a thief in the night.
3For when they shall say, peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.
4But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5For all you are the children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch, and be sober.
Matthew 25:14-30
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14For even as a man going into a far country, called his servants, and delivered to them his goods;
15And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey.
16And he that had received the five talents, went his way, and traded with the same, and gained other five.
17And in like manner he that had received the two, gained other two.
18But he that had received the one, going his way digged into the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
19But after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reckoned with them.
20And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other five talents, saying: Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents, behold I have gained other five over and above.
21His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
22And he also that had received the two talents came and said: Lord, thou deliveredst two talents to me: behold I have gained other two.
23His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
24But he that had received the one talent, came and said: Lord, I know that thou art a hard man; thou reapest where thou hast not sown, and gatherest where thou hast not strewed.
25And being afraid I went and hid thy talent in the earth: behold here thou hast that which is thine.
26And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sow not, and gather where I have not strewed:
27Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received my own with usury.
28Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him that hath ten talents.
29For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: but from him that hath not, that also which he seemeth to have shall be taken away.
30And the unprofitable servant cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Ezekiel 47:1-2,12
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1And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: for the forefront, of the house looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the altar.
2And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and he caused me to turn to the way without the outward gate to the way that looked toward the east: and behold there ran out waters on the right side.
12And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.
1 Corinthians 3:9
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9For we are God’s coadjutors: you are God’s husbandry; you are God’s building.
John 2:13-22
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13And the pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
15And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.
16And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.
17And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
18The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?
19Jesus answered, and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
21But he spoke of the temple of his body.
22When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples remembered, that he had said this, and they believed the scripture, and the word that Jesus had said.
Proverbs 31:10-13,30-31
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10Who shall find a valiant woman? far and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.
11The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils.
12She will render him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.
13She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands.
30Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
31Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates.
Esther 5:1-6
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1And on the third day Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s hall: now he sat upon his throne in the hall of the palace, over against the door of the house.
2And when he saw Esther the queen standing, she pleased his eyes, and he held out toward her the golden sceptre, which he held in his hand: and she drew near, and kissed the top of his sceptre.
3And the king said to her: What wilt then, queen Esther? what is thy request? if thou shouldst even ask one half of the kingdom, it shall be given to thee.
4But she answered: If it please the king. I beseech thee to come to me this day, and Aman with thee to the banquet which I have prepared.
5And the king said forthwith: Call ye Aman quickly, that he may obey Esther’s will. So the king and Aman came to the banquet which the queen had prepared for them.
6And the king said to her, after he had drunk wine plentifully: What dost thou desire should be given thee? and for what thing askest thou? although thou shouldst ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.
Matthew 25:14-30
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14For even as a man going into a far country, called his servants, and delivered to them his goods;
15And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey.
16And he that had received the five talents, went his way, and traded with the same, and gained other five.
17And in like manner he that had received the two, gained other two.
18But he that had received the one, going his way digged into the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
19But after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reckoned with them.
20And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other five talents, saying: Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents, behold I have gained other five over and above.
21His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
22And he also that had received the two talents came and said: Lord, thou deliveredst two talents to me: behold I have gained other two.
23His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
24But he that had received the one talent, came and said: Lord, I know that thou art a hard man; thou reapest where thou hast not sown, and gatherest where thou hast not strewed.
25And being afraid I went and hid thy talent in the earth: behold here thou hast that which is thine.
26And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sow not, and gather where I have not strewed:
27Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received my own with usury.
28Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him that hath ten talents.
29For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: but from him that hath not, that also which he seemeth to have shall be taken away.
30And the unprofitable servant cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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    Matthew 25:13
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    13Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.
    Wisdom 1:1-7
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    1Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in simplicity of heart.
    2For he is found by them that tempt him not: and he sheweth himself to them that have faith in him.
    3For perverse thoughts separate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise:
    4For wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins.
    5For the Holy Spirit of discipline will flee from the deceitful, and will withdraw himself from thoughts that are without understanding, and he shall not abide when iniquity cometh in.
    6For the spirit of wisdom is benevolent, and will not acquit the evil speaker from his lips: for God is witness of his reins, and he is a true searcher of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
    7For the spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world: and that, which containeth all things, hath knowledge of the voice.
    Luke 17:1-6
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    1And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come: but woe to him through whom they come.
    2It were better for him, that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.
    3Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance, forgive him.
    4And if he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day be converted unto thee, saying, I repent; forgive him.
    5And the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith.
    6And the Lord said: If you had faith like to a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this mulberry tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you.
    Luke 17:7-10
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    7But which of you having a servant ploughing, or feeding cattle, will say to him, when he is come from the field: Immediately go, sit down to meat:
    8And will not rather say to him: Make ready my supper, and gird thyself, and serve me, whilst I eat and drink, and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink?
    9Doth he thank that servant, for doing the things which he commanded him?
    10I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.
    Ezekiel 47:1-2,12
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    1And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: for the forefront, of the house looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the altar.
    2And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and he caused me to turn to the way without the outward gate to the way that looked toward the east: and behold there ran out waters on the right side.
    12And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.
    1 Corinthians 3:9
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    9For we are God’s coadjutors: you are God’s husbandry; you are God’s building.
    John 2:13-22
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    13And the pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
    14And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
    15And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.
    16And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.
    17And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
    18The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?
    19Jesus answered, and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
    20The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
    21But he spoke of the temple of his body.
    22When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples remembered, that he had said this, and they believed the scripture, and the word that Jesus had said.
    Wisdom 7:22
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    22For in her is the spirit of understanding: holy, one, manifold, subtile, eloquent, active, undefiled, sure, sweet, loving that which is good, quick, which nothing hindereth, beneficent,
    Luke 17:20-25
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    20And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come? he answered them, and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
    21Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there. For lo, the kingdom of God is within you.
    22And he said to his disciples: The days will come, when you shall desire to see one day of the Son of man; and you shall not see it.
    23And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them:
    24For as the lightening that lighteneth from under heaven, shineth unto the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day.
    25But first he must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation.
    Wisdom 13:1-9
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    1But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman:
    2But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world.
    3With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things.
    4Or if they admired their power and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:
    5For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.
    6But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.
    7For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are persuaded that the things are good which are seen.
    8But then again they are not to be pardoned.
    9For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?
    Luke 17:26-37
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    26And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
    27They did eat and drink, they married wives, and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark: and the flood came and destroyed them all.
    28Likewise as it came to pass, in the days of Lot: they did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built.
    29And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
    30Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed.
    31In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back.
    32Remember Lot’s wife.
    33Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it, shall preserve it.
    34I say to you: in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
    35Two women shall be grinding together: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left: two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be keft.
    36They answering, say to him: Where, Lord?
    37Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.
    Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9
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    1814For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,
    15Thy almighty word leapt down from heaven from thy royal throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction.
    16With a sharp sword carrying thy unfeigned commandment, and he stood and filled all things with death, and standing on the earth reached even to heaven.
    196For every creature according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, obeying thy commandments, that thy children might be kept without hurt.
    7For a cloud overshadowed their camp, and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea a way without hinderance, and out of the great deep a springing field:
    8Through which all the nation passed which was protected with thy hand, seeing thy miracles and wonders.
    9For they fed on their food like horses, and they skipped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.
    Luke 18:1-8
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    1And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray, and not to faint,
    2Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God, nor regarded man.
    3And there was a certain widow in that city, and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary.
    4And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within himself: Although I fear not God, nor regard man,
    5Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me.
    6And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith.
    7And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night: and will he have patience in their regard?
    8I say to you, that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?
    1 Thessalonians 5:1-6
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    1But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not, that we should write to you;
    2For yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall so come, as a thief in the night.
    3For when they shall say, peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.
    4But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
    5For all you are the children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
    6Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch, and be sober.
    Matthew 25:14-30
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    14For even as a man going into a far country, called his servants, and delivered to them his goods;
    15And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey.
    16And he that had received the five talents, went his way, and traded with the same, and gained other five.
    17And in like manner he that had received the two, gained other two.
    18But he that had received the one, going his way digged into the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
    19But after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reckoned with them.
    20And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other five talents, saying: Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents, behold I have gained other five over and above.
    21His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
    22And he also that had received the two talents came and said: Lord, thou deliveredst two talents to me: behold I have gained other two.
    23His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
    24But he that had received the one talent, came and said: Lord, I know that thou art a hard man; thou reapest where thou hast not sown, and gatherest where thou hast not strewed.
    25And being afraid I went and hid thy talent in the earth: behold here thou hast that which is thine.
    26And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sow not, and gather where I have not strewed:
    27Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received my own with usury.
    28Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him that hath ten talents.
    29For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: but from him that hath not, that also which he seemeth to have shall be taken away.
    30And the unprofitable servant cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
    Ezekiel 47:1-2,12
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    1And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: for the forefront, of the house looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the altar.
    2And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and he caused me to turn to the way without the outward gate to the way that looked toward the east: and behold there ran out waters on the right side.
    12And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.
    1 Corinthians 3:9
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    9For we are God’s coadjutors: you are God’s husbandry; you are God’s building.
    John 2:13-22
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