“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ...
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory...
... so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what...
With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness.
