Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time | November 15, 2026
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Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31
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Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5
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1 Thessalonians 5:1-6
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Matthew 25:14-30
Scripture speaks of two kinds of fear. One hides in the dark and buries what it has been given. The other is a sacred fear, rooted in love, trust, and compassion.
Bro. Bobby Nichols, SJ, reflects on the Parable of the Talents through the disciplinarian every student at his high school feared, and the advocate he discovered when he came back to teach. Some of us are still facing the wall, afraid of a God we never got to know.
Lord, you know us better than we know ourselves. Free us from the fear that buries what you have given, and grant us the sacred fear that trusts your love, so that we may live as children of the light.