Matthew 20:1-16

25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, year A.

Questions

1) What are your initial thoughts, ideas, emotional reactions, to the text.

2) What are your experiences of jealousy?

3) What do you think of the landowner? Do you feel positively or negatively towards his behaviour?

4) Place yourself in the position of the workers who worked for 12 hours, how do you feel?

5) Place yourself in the position of the workers who worked 1 hour, how do you feel?

5) What are your experiences of being oppressed by another person or institution,

6) The introduction to this parable talks about the Kingdom of heaven, what do you make of this and how do you understand it?