Folktale from the Hindu community in
Trinidad, The Caribbean
Twenty-Ninth Sunday
in Ordinary Time
Lectionary Images
Isaiah 45: 1, 4-6 (Roman Lectionary)
Isaiah 45: 1-7
(Episcopal & Revised Common Lectionaries)
For the sake of Jacob
my chosen one
I have called you, Cyrus,
by your name.
I gave you a title,
though you knew me not.
Remember I am the Lord
and there is no other.
Matthew 25: 15-21 (Roman Lectionary)
Matthew 25: 15-22
(Episcopal & Revised Common Lectionaries)
When they handed Jesus
a small Roman coin,
he asked them:
“Whose portrait is this?
And whose inscription?”
They replied:
“Caesar’s.”
And Jesus said,
“Then give to Caesar what is Caesar’s.
and to God what is God’s”