Talents

Make them bear fruit

November 23rd 2025

The Creator has given us qualities and gifts and, one day, we will be called to account for the way in which we have used them.
You know the parable in the Gospel of the servants whose master, before his departure, entrusted them with money. To the first he gave three talents, to the second he gave one, and to the third he gave five. When he returned he asked them how they had used this money. The servants who had received several talents had made their money yield a profit, but the servant who had received just one had buried it in the ground. This servant the master punished, and the other two he rewarded.
One day, heaven will ask us to account for the qualities, gifts and virtues we have been given. Did you let them go to waste? Did you make them bear fruit? And depending on the case, we too shall be either punished or rewarded.*
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