Heaven is God’s generosity (HOMILY FOR WEDNESDAY OF THE TWENTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR II (ST. PIUS X - AUGUST 21, 2024)
HOMILY FOR WEDNESDAY OF THE TWENTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR II (ST. PIUS X - AUGUST 21, 2024) Ezekiel 34:1-11; Ps.23; Matthew 20:1-16a Heaven is God’s generosity The parable of Jesus in today’s gospel powerfully projects the generosity of God in a manner that beats man’s imagination. However, it aims at improving our understanding about the kingdom of God. In God’s kingdom, what matters is love not time or input. When we try to subject God’s kingdom to time, it ceases to be eternal. When we subject it to human effort, it becomes a merited reward. If heaven is a reward for what we have done, then heaven needs to have degrees/categories because some persons will put in more effort than others. Instead of seeing heaven as a reward, I would prefer to see it as the consequence of a deliberate choice – the choice to serve God. When we choose to be docile to the government of God, we become candidates for heaven. This is a cause-and-effect mechanism, and it is rightly just. However, not