Am I not free to do as I wish with my own money?

21 SEPTEMBER (Mt 20,1-16)

Every evangelical parable is rich with a new wisdom that is urgent to put in full light. It is the intelligence of the Holy Spirit to discover the truths contained in this new wisdom and to connect them to each other, knowing that one single truth is not the Truth and only one light is not the Light. The Truth is the sum of multiple truths and the more this multitude of individual truths will be unified and the more the light that emanates from them will be shining and radiant. One single truth is simply darkness, not light, because it loses all of its light if it does not perpetually draw its light from the other lights.

In fact, in the new wisdom of the Lord Jesus the truths illuminate each other. The one gives light to all the others. All others give light to the one. If one single truth is separated from the others, it instantly loses its light. It becomes darkness, obscurity, a big lie and a falsity. Salvation no longer springs from it. In fact, this comes from the Truth not from the many lights of truth that make it up. This hermeneutical principle needs to be shouted at every heart and every mind. All divisions of the body of Christ were born and will be born because this principle was and is ignored.

But who is able to unify all the truth in order to make with them the Truth that redeems and saves? This capability is of only one. It is of the Holy Spirit that is the Author of the Word, the Author of the Gospel and of the Truth. It is he the one who must lead believers to all the Truth. To all the Truth to be understood and not yet understood. To all truth to be unified and not yet unified. If the preacher of the Gospel is in the Holy Spirit, from the Spirit of the Lord he is endowed with the capacity both of the conduction of the Word to the whole Truth to be understood as well as also the ability to unify all the truths into a single Truth and into a single large light. Many truths make up the Truth. Multiple lamps make the light. The new wisdom which the Gospel is abundant in is this wonderful unity.

“The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Going out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.’ So they went off. (And) he went out again around noon, and around three o’clock, and did likewise. Going out about five o’clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ They answered, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard.’ When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Summon the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and ending with the first.’ When those who had started about five o’clock came, each received the usual daily wage. So when the first came, they thought that they would receive more, but each of them also got the usual wage. And on receiving it they grumbled against the landowner, saying, ‘These last ones worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who bore the day’s burden and the heat.’ He said to one of them in reply, ‘My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? Take what is yours and go. What if I wish to give this last one the same as you? (Or) am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?’ Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

In the vineyard of the Lord one goes by the call of the Master. He does not go to work on his own initiative. The call is for everyone, at every hour of the day. It is the Master the one who decides if, when and where to call. Who works must always be given a fair salary. For those working in the vineyard of the Lord the just wage is eternal life. It is the divine truth: the Master has his own particular law for the salary. He gives it not based on hours of work only, but also in relation to the response of the worker. This law does not take anything away to whoever responded to the first hour. Instead, it adds to those who responded in the successive hours. To the stricter justice the Lord adds the larger charity. The strict justice is not the Truth of the new wisdom. Not even the larger charity is the Truth of the Gospel. Justice is the Gospel Truth together with the charity. But it is not the gospel Truth expecting a fair salary or the larger charity without working in the vineyard.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints give us the Evangelical Truth.