Apparently Holy Mother
Church wants us to learn something about God’s justice and mercy, because the
themes of this Sunday’s Readings repeat, with variation, those of last week’s.
Last week we had to deal
with the difficult Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, which raised the
issue of whether God is “unfair” in his merciful generosity
This week the topic of
God’s “fairness” rises again at the beginning of the First Reading: