Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time – November 15, 2026

⁷But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the giving of Christ.

⁸Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive; he gave gifts to men.

⁹Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

¹⁰He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

¹¹And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors,

¹²For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

¹³Until we all meet into the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ;

¹⁴That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive.

¹⁵But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ:

¹⁶From whom the whole body, being compacted and fitly joined together, by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in charity.

¹I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord.

²Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.

³Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.

⁴For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.

⁵Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David.

¹¹Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

¹And there were present, at that very time, some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

²And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such things?

³No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

⁴Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe, and slew them: think you, that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

⁵No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

⁶He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

⁷And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it done therefore: why cumbereth it the ground?

⁸But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it, and dung it.

⁹And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

¹⁰Who shall find a valiant woman? far and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.

¹¹The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils.

¹²She will render him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.

¹³She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands.

¹⁹She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle.

²⁰She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her hands to the poor.

³⁰Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

³¹Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates.

¹Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.

²For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

³Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house.

⁴Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.

⁵May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayest thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

¹But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not, that we should write to you;

²For yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall so come, as a thief in the night.

³For when they shall say, peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

⁴But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

⁵For all you are the children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

⁶Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch, and be sober.

¹⁴For even as a man going into a far country, called his servants, and delivered to them his goods;

¹⁵And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey.

¹⁶And he that had received the five talents, went his way, and traded with the same, and gained other five.

¹⁷And in like manner he that had received the two, gained other two.

¹⁸But he that had received the one, going his way digged into the earth, and hid his lord’s money.

¹⁹But after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reckoned with them.

²⁰And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other five talents, saying: Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents, behold I have gained other five over and above.

²¹His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

²²And he also that had received the two talents came and said: Lord, thou deliveredst two talents to me: behold I have gained other two.

²³His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

²⁴But he that had received the one talent, came and said: Lord, I know that thou art a hard man; thou reapest where thou hast not sown, and gatherest where thou hast not strewed.

²⁵And being afraid I went and hid thy talent in the earth: behold here thou hast that which is thine.

²⁶And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sow not, and gather where I have not strewed:

²⁷Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received my own with usury.

²⁸Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him that hath ten talents.

²⁹For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: but from him that hath not, that also which he seemeth to have shall be taken away.

³⁰And the unprofitable servant cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.