God is good all the time, and all the time God is good.

Dear Holy Trinity Family,

   “My ways are not your ways, and my thoughts are not your thoughts.” These words have been mentioned in our first reading. And that is really very true. Listen carefully to the gospel reading today about the landowner who sent laborers to his vineyard. He called his laborers in different times. But he made an agreement to the first one he called with a certain wage for the day. And this same wage has been given as well to the very last laborer he sent to his vineyard who just work for an hour. With this regard, he got complaints from those who started to work earlier. He emphasized to them that he has the right to whatever he would like to do with his resources.
    Yes, in the normal way, it looks like very unfair to those first ones who work the whole day and are never given a special consideration. This is unfair labor practice. This is in the worldly context. But this gospel is trying to point out that when God the landowner called us to work in his vineyard, this should not be equate with how much time did you rendered.
It is the quality of heart that you showed. Thus he says , “the first will be the last and the last will be the first.” With God, there’s no lesser and no greater among us. He treats us equally, as God’s children. And so we should not boast of who we are and what we are. But instead, whatever we have in this life should lead us to glorify the Lord. God is so generous, and we should reciprocate this with kindness. We should treat people around us goodness.
The more that we’ve been blessed the more that we need to be humble. May this message of our gospel this Sunday teach us become humble servants of God . And teach us to be grateful to God’s goodness . Jesus I trust in you .

In Christ and Mary,

Fr. Rey Manahan