Homily for Tuesday
29th Week of Ordinary
Time
Oct. 21, 2025
Luke 12: 35-38
Christian Brothers, St.
Joseph’s Residence, N.R.
“The master will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them” (Luke 12:37).
3 Sundays back, we
heard a different parable about a master and “unprofitable servants,” sometimes
called “unworthy servants” or “worthless” or “useless.” Luke’s Greek could also be translated as
“slaves” rather than “servants.”
In that parable, the
servant or slave works all day in the fields; when he returns to the house, his
master orders him to get his supper and wait on him, after which he may
eat. All the slave’s work advantages his
master, and he has nothing due him.
What a different
picture in today’s parable! It’s the
master who comes home, and he’s so pleased to find his slaves alert and waiting
to receive him that he serves them dinner at once.
It’s an image of
Jesus bringing us to his table after we’ve watched eagerly for his arrival, and
of Jesus serving us—1st in the Eucharist, later at the banquet of eternal life: “Blessed are those called to the supper of
the Lamb”—the supper that brings us back to the Last Supper and the passion of
the Lord, and forward to the feast we hope to share with the Lord forever as
guests of his grace—unworthy servants, blessed guests.
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