Reduced to its essence, today’s parable is a lesson in humility. Everything we have is God’s gift, and God is generous beyond compare. We are his servants, his “useless” servants (Luke 17:10). By ...

We are all builders. We build careers, families, institutions, etc. But the important question is: Why do we build?

Father Stephen Thorne on Jesus’ parable of the vineyard, reminding us that faith calls us to live justly, serve others and bear fruit through everyday acts of integrity.

As the Church celebrates the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Fr. Marion Nguyen, OSB, offers his thoughts on the day’s liturgical readings under ...

Jesus’s parable of the workers in the vineyard mirrors the harsh realities of exploitative economic and agricultural systems, urging us to imagine a world that nurtures both land and people. Workers ...

If you’ve bought an airplane ticket in the last decade, you’ve noticed something that may raise an eyebrow or two. Just about ...

A reflection on Jesus’ vineyard workers parable explores fairness, generosity and trusting God’s freedom to give as He chooses.

But the heart of the parable lies in the moment of payment, when the landowner keeps his word to the workers hired at the first hour and pays them as agreed; yet he wants them to see his goodness and, ...

The Sunday lectionary reading for Trinity 18 in Year A is the second of three judgement parables against the Jerusalem leaders in Matt 21.33–46: traditionally, the parable of the wicked husbandmen, or ...

Left: Sir John Everett Millais, “The Parable of the Buried Treasure,” ca. 1860. Right: Andrey Nikolaevich Mironov, “The ...

In his Sunday Angelus catechesis, the pontiff reflected on the parable of the vineyard workers, saying God’s generosity ...