25th Sunday in Ordinary Time - A. "Are you envious because I am generous?"
My spiritual director last summer said to me, "Expectations are the seedbed of resentment." I was stunned by this unexpected insight. It certainly applies to Jesus's parable today. The workers hired at dawn expected more money than the ones hired near dusk. They presumed they'd get more in wages, because they worked longer. This parable is not about economics. It points to the utter radical generosity of God, in contrast to our human measly-measured-out charity. The word entitlement does not belong in the Christian vocabulary.
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