Sunday 7 August 2022 – XIX of Ordinary Time

+ From the Gospel according to Luke (12, 32 – 48)

At that time, Jesus said to his disciples:
«Do not be afraid, little flock, because your Father has liked to give you the Kingdom.
Sell ​​what you have and give it in alms; make bags that do not age, a safe treasure in the skies, where thief does not arrive and worm does not consume. Because, where your treasure is, there will your heart be too.
Be ready, with your clothes tight to your hips and the lamps lit; be like those who wait for their master when he comes back from the wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they open it immediately.
Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake on his return; verily, I tell you, he will tighten his garments around his hips, have them sit at table and come and serve them. And if, arriving in the middle of the night or before dawn, he finds them like this, lucky them!
Try to understand this: if the landlord knew what time the thief was coming, he would not let his house be broken into. You too get ready because, at an hour you do not imagine, the Son of man is coming “.
Then Peter said, “Lord, are you saying this parable for us or also for everyone?”
The Lord replied: “Who then is the trustworthy and prudent administrator, whom the master will put in charge of his servants to give the food ration in due time? Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he arrives, will find doing so. Truly I tell you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
But if that servant said in his heart: “My master is late in coming”, and began to beat the servants and maidservants, to eat, drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will come a day when he does not. he waits and at an hour he does not know, he will punish him severely and inflict on him the fate that the infidels deserve.
The servant who, knowing the will of his master, will not have arranged or acted according to his will, will receive many blows; the one who, not knowing it, will have done things worthy of beating, will receive few.
From whoever was given much, much will be asked; whoever was entrusted with a lot, much more will be required ”

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