Don’t Bury What God Put in Your Hands (Homily – August 30, 2025)

Saturday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time — August 30, 2025

Readings: 1 Thessalonians 4:9–11; Psalm 98; Matthew 25:14–30

In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the Parable of the Talents: some servants double what their master entrusted, while one buries his gift in the ground. The message is urgent and clear: God has placed something in your hands. It's your time, your gifts, your heart for service and He expects it to be invested for His Kingdom. Fear is not prudence. Silence is not humility. Heaven does not compare yield charts. Heaven looks for fidelity.

“The third servant is not condemned for stealing. He's condemned for doing nothing.”

Recorded at Saint Edward Catholic Church in Richard, Louisiana.



Visit our Parish Website