November 19, 2025
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Wednesday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
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Gospel : Luke 19:11-28
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As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God's Kingdom would be revealed immediately.
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He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.
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He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'
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But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
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"When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
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The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.'
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"He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'
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"The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.'
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"So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'
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Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
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for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'
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"He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down and reaping that which I didn't sow.
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Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?'
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He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.'
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"They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!'
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'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.
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But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.' "
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Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
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2 Maccabees 7:1, 20-31 **
Martyrdom of a Mother and Her Seven Sons.
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It also happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king to force them to eat pork in violation of God's law.
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Most admirable and worthy of everlasting remembrance was the mother who, seeing her seven sons perish in a single day, bore it courageously because of her hope in the Lord.
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Filled with a noble spirit that stirred her womanly reason with manly emotion, she exhorted each of them in the language of their ancestors with these words:
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e "I do not know how you came to be in my womb; it was not I who gave you breath and life, nor was it I who arranged the elements you are made of.
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Therefore, since it is the Creator of the universe who shaped the beginning of humankind and brought about the origin of everything, he, in his mercy, will give you back both breath and life, because you now disregard yourselves for the sake of his law."
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Antiochus, suspecting insult in her words, thought he was being ridiculed. As the youngest brother was still alive, the king appealed to him, not with mere words, but with promises on oath, to make him rich and happy if he would abandon his ancestral customs: he would make him his Friend and entrust him with high office.
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When the youth paid no attention to him at all, the king appealed to the mother, urging her to advise her boy to save his life.
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After he had urged her for a long time, she agreed to persuade her son.
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She leaned over close to him and, in derision of the cruel tyrant, said in their native language: "Son, have pity on me, who carried you in my womb for nine months, nursed you for three years, brought you up, educated and supported you to your present age.
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I beg you, child, to look at the heavens and the earth and see all that is in them; then you will know that God did not make them out of existing things.* In the same way humankind came into existence.
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Do not be afraid of this executioner, but be worthy of your brothers and accept death, so that in the time of mercy I may receive you again with your brothers."
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She had scarcely finished speaking when the youth said: "What is the delay? I will not obey the king's command. I obey the command of the law given to our ancestors through Moses.
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But you, who have contrived every kind of evil for the Hebrews, will not escape the hands of God.
** 2 Maccabees 7:1, 20-31
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/2maccabees/7?1
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* World English Bible
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