25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A
There are all sorts of ways to understand this parable of the generous landowner, but, really it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to us. Anyone who’s hired people knows you don’t pay someone the same if they worked all day or if they only worked for one hour at the end of the day when it is nice and cool.
One thing’s for sure… but first, there are all sorts of ways to explain this parable. The church fathers said probably the best way to understand this is that the Jews were called first, and then later the gentiles, but we both receive the same salvation. So there’s your scholarly answer for the day…
But one thing’s for sure in this parable of the generous landowner. Everyone got the same thing, but nobody got what they expected.
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