Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute. And joining me is Dr. Michael

Barbara, a professor of scripture here at the Institute. We're going to talk about the Gospel of

Matthew chapter 20. We're going to continue our ongoing Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew. And so

you're welcome to pick up a Bible and join us for this study. We're using the ESVCE, the English Center Version Catholic Edition,

which the Augustine Institute publishes, and so you can get that at Catholic.market. And also,

I want to mention just thanks to everybody who supports us in the Mission Circle. This month of

December, we have a special donor couple that are going to

match two for one. Anybody who donates and joins our Mission Circle, our monthly giving society,

which could be as little as $10 or more a month, your gift will be doubled for this month. And so

that would be a great blessing to us. You can make it a Christmas gift to the Augustin Institute and to

our Lord, and we'd be greatly appreciative of that. Well, I want to dive into the Word of God, Michael,

and chapter 20 is the parable that Jesus tells about the labors in the vineyard. And, you know,

this actually was a parable that John Paul II enjoyed. And he used this quite a bit for,

especially in 1985 in the extraordinary

Senate on Vatican II. And he used this parable to talk about how the laity needs to be engaged.

And the laity needs to teach the faith and to spread the faith. And so one of the lines here

is you've got this person who owns this pretty large vineyard.

He's hiring different workers at different times.

And when he sees people in the town who are idle and not working, he says, why are you idle and not working?

And John Paul says, this is the Lord asking us, why are you idle when it comes to the work of the Father's Vineyard, the Father's Kingdom?

Don't be idle, but be busy. There's much work to be done. And there's much work to be done right now in renewing the church. And so there is not room for anybody to be idle, is there, Michael?

Amen to that. Yeah. And in fact, it's sort of interesting to sort of contextualize the

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