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Background: It is useful to reflect on this Sunday that even the
richest kings in the time of Jesus enjoyed a standard of living, not to say the health
care, which the poorest people in our society would engage in violent revolt if it was
forced upon them. Moreover even our poorest are wealthy compared to some of the really
poor people in the world, such as those who live in the favelas of Latin America or the
shanty towns of Africa. We would be mistaken if we tried to derive economic policy from
today’s Gospel. We would also be mistaken to think that Christians can accept acute
inequality even within our relatively affluent society. One of the issues in this election
is the enormous gap between the salaries of CEOs and the salaries of ordinary workers, a
gap which even European businessmen find appalling. |
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Story: Once upon a
time a married couple went off on a long vacation to Europe. Since their kids were away in
college, there was no need to have someone take care of the house. So they told their
cleaning person she didn’t have to come to the house until they returned. She looked
so said that they said she could come in one
way every other week instead of two days every week. They were shocked that she
wasn’t as grateful as they thought she should be. They came home after having a
wonderful time on their trip and found the house in perfect order of course. The cleaning
person told them that she had found another job while they were gone at which she could
work every day. They were furious at her for her disloyalty and refused to pay her for the
days she had worked while they were away. We don’t know you were here those days,
they said. You could have cleaned the house up the day before we returned. That’s
what we get for being generous to you. The trouble with you people is that you have no
sense of loyalty.
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