Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (5)

What does it mean to be good?

think if good

rewarded

praised

exalted

not what hear today Gospel

when u do good say ‘unprofitable servants, only did what duty’

Throw that word around

‘being good’

only one Good in self

but many good to their limit

think how use ‘good’

example

just fulfills what it is

If we good

then simply being human in all ways

body

social

spiritually

gives God no profit

just didnt harm what made

reward for not destroying what God made no sense

only punishment if fail to

thats all being good is for us

What mean for us

remedy pride

owed NOTHING even if we were perfect good

if perfectly good, only failed injure God’s creation of humanity

CCC 2007 and Gospel, no merit whatsoever owed from God

worse, if anything like me, been less perfectly good

and agaisnt infinite/Goodness itself

how often hear:

‘Im good, I deserve'

something very wrong thought

ever crosses mind ‘I deserve’ like society loves to say

not from God

maybe between humans relatively sometimes, but not between you and reality

we owed nothing

Tho don’t deserve

CCC 2008 God give us merit thru his gift

like allowance or praising a child’s work

tho Gospel notes, truly "worthless slave”, but God chooses adopt us

no call slaves but friends. Jn 15:15.

names us God friend, children God

2 fold peace

no clinging desperately what owed

we let go of oppression of feeling offended by universe

owes nothing

great relief in this sort of poverty

And yet look gift

tho we failed

God adopts you as child

everything gains value as gift rather than salary

Conclusion

To be good, is only to be what we are supposed to be

not taking from creation

remedy for pride

release from having to cling to rights

but better appreciates gift given us amidst the chaos of life

Notes

Me

reverse idea owed to be owe

Doing right not owed more except by God’s grace

generous, heaven/eternal life basically like a boss giving a bonus far far far greater than the natural reward of doing what ought

CCC 2007, no strict right of merit from God

CCC 2008 merit only b/c God freely chooses associate man work with his grace

Quote no longer servants

Commentators

Pitre

‘pistos’: trust rather than just intellectual assent.

sycamore/mulberry

not sure tree exactly

sycamore deep and wide root system

Jewish texts forbidding planting this tree near anything b/c this

obviously hard to pluck such tree

mustard seed

wide deep root system

Othelo: debt literally (but translated duty)

since just duty to be righteous then no reason for pride

how radically indebted to God

unworhty servant literally worthless slaves

Habakuk:

Wait!

2nd reading

do not be coward and defend truth