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Pastoral word

The Parable of the Talents

In the times of the Gospel, a talent denoted a very large sum of money. A talent corresponded to sixty minas. A mina equaled a hundred dinarii. During the earthly life of the Saviour, an ordinary worker earned one dinarius a day.

We find the parable of the talents in the twenty-fifth chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew:

For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own...

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