The Generous Landowner

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 18 September 2005

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The parable that Jesus tells in our Gospel for today is one of his most disturbing and confounding. Giving the same wage to those who worked for one hour and those who labored the whole day just seems unjust. The story is meant to place a question in our minds: what exactly is divine justice and how does it differ from our conception of justice?

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic Cemetery's, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:06.7	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:10.9	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:17.4	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:21.8	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.0	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:29.0	God's Love about the One who is Love.
0:32.4	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winetka now presents
0:37.4	the Word on Fire.
0:39.7	Peace be with you, friends and say's gospel.
0:42.2	We hear one of the most disturbing, unnerving parables that Jesus ever preached.
0:49.3	Now, I've said to you before, the parables almost by definition are disturbing and unnerving.
0:55.2	Our purpose is, as it were, to dismantle the world of sin that we've created.
1:01.6	And to show us a new world, that's why they're often funny and strange, and we wonder
1:07.4	at them.
1:08.4	They're turning our conventional world upside down and showing us the way God operates.
1:14.4	Well, the one today, the story of the generous landowner, is one of the most puzzling and
1:22.8	disturbing of all the stories Jesus told.
1:26.8	We know the outline of the story well.
1:30.3	A landowner goes out to hire workers for his field, common practice in Jesus time, also
1:36.0	relatively common even in our culture today.
1:38.9	He goes out to hire workers very early in the morning.
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