Our Gospel today is shocking, because we all expect fair treatment, and the parable in today’s Gospel seems massively unfair. We’re told not only that the first workers receive the same amount as the last ones, but that they have to wait in line until the end to receive that same amount. As Christians reacting to a Gospel we’ve heard over and over again in the course of our lives, we can easily criticize the labourers, because we know they must be wrong. But if we are honest

Is Jesus contradicting himself? Last Sunday, we heard about our obligation as Christians to correct someone who sins. We were reminded that it was an act of love to bring people to acknowledge and repent of their wrongdoing. But today’s Gospel seems to contradict that: the clear lesson that it teaches us, is that we should forgive each other, and not just that, but we should not set any limits to our forgiveness. That is what is meant by Jesus’ statement that we should forgiv

In today’s Gospel, Jesus gives us some guidelines about how to deal with ruptures in a community. This presupposes something that is easy to overlook: that we are called to communion in the first place. So, what does this mean, to be called to communion? One approach is to go back to the beginning of Scripture. In the book of Genesis, we hear that “God created man in his own image, in his own image he created him, male and female he created them.” So, we are created in th