Sunday 24 September 2023 – XXV of Ordinary Time

+ From the Gospel according to Matthew (20, 1 – 16)

At that time, Jesus told his disciples this parable:
«The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed with them for a denarius a day and sent them to his vineyard. Then going out around nine in the morning, he saw others standing in the square, unemployed, and said to them: “You too go into the vineyard; I will give you what is right.” And they went. He went out again around noon and three o’clock, and did the same. Going out again around five o’clock, he saw others standing there and said to them: “Why do you stand here all day doing nothing?”. They replied: “Because no one has hired us.” And he said to them, “You too go into the vineyard.”
When it was evening, the owner of the vineyard said to his farmer: “Call the workers and pay them, starting from the last to the first.” When those of five in the afternoon came, they each received a denarius. When the first ones arrived, they thought they would receive more. But they also each received a denarius. When they collected it, however, they murmured against the master, saying: “These last ones worked only for an hour and you treated them like us, who bore the burden of the day and the heat.”
But the master, answering one of them, said: “Friend, I do you no wrong. Have you not agreed with me for a denarius? Take yours and leave. But I also want to give to the latter as much as to you: can’t I do with my things what I want? Or are you envious because I am good?”. Thus the last will be first and the first last.”

Word of the Lord.

The image of the broken bread is a drawing made with sand by Stefania Bruno (in the photo) on the occasion of the recital “I am here to listen to you” – Father Puglisi 30 years after martyrdom – The message of 3P in the words of the DISCIPLE by Lia Cirrito