Matthew 25:14-30

33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, year A.

Questions

1) What are my initial thoughts, emotions, reactions to the text?

2) How do I feel about the first two servants?

3) How do I feel about the third servant?

4) What are the comforts and privileges I enjoy which are made possible by the exploitation of others?

5) What is our present day equivalent of the place of darkness and of the grinding of teeth?

6) What risks have I taken because of my faith?

7) Is it right for churches to fund themselves using investment wealth? Or for any individual or institution to be funded this way?

8) What are my thoughts on the social positioning of the church in regards to money, status, comfort?

9) This parable potentially paints a very realistic, but depressing, picture of the life of the Church among the poor. Where do I find hope and positivity?