Gospel Reflection:
In today’s Gospel passage, the landowner hires workers at different times during the day, yet at the end of the day, all of them are paid the same daily wage. The landowner represents God, the workers hired at the beginning of the day are the Jews. Those hired late are the Gentiles. God is offering the full daily wage to all who work in His vineyard. Although, the Gentiles came late, Heaven is offered to them too if they would work in the Lord’s vineyard.
This is good news for us. It means that regardless of whether we started to follow God late in life or not we can still receive the reward of Heaven. If you are not working for God right now, then rejoice because He is hiring you for a specific job that only you can fulfill. Maybe right now you are working for God in some aspects of your life, but in others you might not be working for God. Consider the following aspects of time, money, and your moral life. Are you following God’s teaching and by doing so working in His vineyard?
It is not too late to start now. Ask for the help of God’s grace and He will guide you little by little to working fully and completely for Him. Let us turn to the Lord for mercy, for He is generous in forgiving. Let us make ourselves available to God in prayer and through repentance, so that He can hire us and so we can be with Him forever in Heaven.
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