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[Emoke Greschik]

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

Matthew 20:1-16A

Friends, the parable that Jesus tells in today's Gospel is one of the most
unnerving, disturbing and confounding of all. We know the outline of the
story well:* a landowner goes out to hire workers for his field, hiring
some first thing in the morning and then others at different times during
the day. Then, at the close of work, he pays each the same wage.*



I would like to offer two reflections on this puzzling story. First, we
should remember that *God's ways are not our ways. *Does *this story
represent *an undermining of justice? No, rather, *a showing forth of the
justice that flows from God's vision of things.*



Here's a second perspective: We sinners are very susceptible to a
reward-centered understanding of our relationship to God. Tit for tat. I do
this; then you better do that. But this is very juvenile, very primitive.



*We've been invited to work in the vineyard of the Lord. That is the
greatest privilege imaginable, to participate in the Lord's work.* Why are
we fussing about rewards? And *how liberating this is! I don't have to
spend my life worrying and comparing. I can live.*




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