Why be envious because I am generous? Homily for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A.

God’s indiscriminate and abundant generosity is extended to everybody, even to those rejected, to the outcasts that nobody wants. It is amazing grace. Grace that can be calculated and expected is no longer grace. Whether we labour in the vineyard for one hour or twelve is not ultimately decisive. God gives salvation as an unmerited free gift, and not, as Pelagius would have, something we can achieve ourselves.