Bagels & Bible Study - Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

<p style="text-align:justify;">Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time </p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Reading 1      PROVERBS 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">A reading from the Book of Proverbs</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">When one finds a worthy wife, her value is far beyond pearls. Her husband, entrusting his heart to her, has an unfailing prize. She brings him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. She obtains wool and flax and works with loving hands. She puts her hands to the distaff, and her fingers ply the spindle. She reaches out her hands to the poor, and extends her arms to the needy. Charm is deceptive and beauty fleeting; the woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. Give her a reward for her labors, and let her works praise her at the city gates.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The word of the Lord.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Reading 2       1 THESSALONIANS 5:1-6</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">A reading from the first Letter of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Concerning times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night. When people are saying, "Peace and security," then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief. For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The word of the Lord.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Gospel        MATTHEW 25:14-30</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew</p> <p style="text-align:justify;"