Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Homily)
August 07, 2016 9:00 am · Father Dan Vanyo
In regards to the watchful servant, or the faithful servant, we've got that. Let's as the question: Are we watchful in our prayer? The term watchfulness, how good are we doing it? How good are we at it, is actually more correct. Are we watchful? Now we can think of examples of lazy and unfaithful servants, that's not hard, we got great examples in the Gospel. But even right now. any of you who are business owners who have employees, imagine, maybe you actually experienced something, you come back unexpectedly, maybe its early from a vacation or it's a day that you're supposed to be gone. You come back and you find your employees with bad customer service or you find out they are not doing their job, whatever. Do you reward them? Or do you fire them? Or something in the middle depending on what is going on.
Parents who have teenagers, have you ever left home for a weekend, come back and something wrong. Was there a wild party? Was there something broken? Was there something that was supposed to be taken care of that was fairly important and was not? Are you happy with your teen? Do you reward them? Or do they get some type of punishment or at least some kind of conversation? So we can think of examples and apply the master, the Lord, coming back, whether it's a business owner, you own your home and you are in charge of your residence and your family as the parent, or any other thing that you can think of that applies. You can come up with, I get that. Because there is an expectation and a responsibility that supposed to be due. Even from the sense of justice, but also because you asked for it, and there should be an obedience to your authority because of your position. We get that.