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33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
13th November 2011
GOSPEL REFLECTION
Fear Factor
The Gospel is the last in the series of parables to which we have been listening these past weeks. The audience has been the Pharisees. They have been challenged and insulted by the words and stories Jesus has directed toward them. This parable however is offered to the disciples for their encouragement. Jesus is the Master going on a journey. We are nearing the end of Matthews’ account of the life of Jesus. The disciples are the servants with whom Jesus has entrusted the relationship of faith. The master in the story goes on his journey and then returns expecting a fruitful accounting of his investments. There are three servants who received different amounts with which to do something. Two did and one invested, out of fear, in the earth. This is not a teaching about the proper use of personal or physical gifts exactly. The “talents” are a symbol for the gift of faith and the parable is about the proper employment of that gift. Two servants were active, allowing faith to assist them in making choices and being receptive to all of God’s other gifts. They responded. The third servant was afraid of the master and doubted. He buried his faith and did not allow the gift to bear fruit, but just let it be nothing in his life’s choices and attitude. When it comes to spirituality there is one thing that goes away if it is buried, but which gets greater if you use it. Love. Fear closes the door tightly against love. Let love in!
Next Sunday’s Gospel is the story which follows this parable. We will hear quite directly and clearly what faith does, when invested faithfully. Faith gives us our value and our outreaching, our caring, our dying-to-self, our being for others.
Never turn your back when someone
needs your love.
- St Benedict
PRAYERS OF ST PAUL
9And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more
in knowledge and depth of insight, 10so that you may be able to
discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day
of Christ, 11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through
Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.
Amen!!!
PHILLIPIANS
1:9-11
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For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not
stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge
of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And
we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord
and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work,
growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power
according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance
and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has
qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom
of light.
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