THE GOSPEL
Matthew 20:1-16aWhen those who had started about five o’clock came,
each received the usual daily wage.
O,
you know us all:
each one’s wants and needs.
(some more, some less.)
Our
pay
will be
your call,
to the vineyard,
to the locus of grace,
where you heap the fortune
of everlasting life and love on us.
Thank you for your
wonderfully constant call to all
to work there.
THE FIRST READING
Isaiah 55:6-9
Call on him while he is near.
Seek the Lord while he may be found,
search for him at break of day,
call to him in the night,
look for him in
work and
play.
God,
let us look for you always and everywhere …
in your call to us to fix our planet
and
broken social justice systems,
missing not one detail
of your presence
in our
life.
