On The Journey This Week: Fr Mark De Battista says that this is a parable about the Lord trusting us with talents and skills and burying them simply doesn't cut it with the Lord. Mother Hilda has been reading the book of Ezekiel and its recurring line “and they will know that I am God.” Fr Tony Percy wonders are we like the third servant, frozen into immobility by our prudent timidity, Mark Raue explains the Preferential Option for the Poor, and Pete Gilmore says life is like a circus big top with Jesus as the ringmaster.