Loyalty and responsibility. We will give an account to God for everything in our life.

Let us be responsible for everything that God has entrusted to us.

Jesus reminds us of this in the parable of the talents: “For to everyone who has, more will be added and he will have more. And from him who has not, even what he has will be taken” (Mt 25:29). Our task in life is to fulfill the will of God and thus gain a share in the kingdom of God. they received. Jesus compared the gifts from God to talents so that the listeners would better understand the magnitude of the facilities. Talent was the most significant financial unit in Asia Minor. To create a correct picture of the value of the talent, let’s remember that the Jewish talent was divided into 30 minas or 3000 shekels. One mina weighed about 436 g of silver, the shekel 8.4 g. It took about 15 years of work to earn one million. A talent was equal to 26 kg of silver, which meant that for the average Jew, wealth was practically unattainable. In today’s situation, one talent would be worth 70 thousand US dollars. This means that whoever receives more will rightly be asked for more; if expectations are not met, a harsher punishment comes. The parable of the talents does not exclude anyone from God’s love. Everyone gets talents. As humans, we were given health, beauty, family, various smartness, skills, talents, and how have we dealt with them so far?

When Edison was asked what he owed to his discoveries and inventions, he answered: “One percent talent and ninety percent hard work.” Louis Pasteur, the inventor of the cure for rabies and the discoverer of pasteurization, spoke similarly. As Christians, we received gifts in the sacraments – baptism,  confirmation, reconciliation, the Eucharist, marriage, and the priesthood. We must not only turn our attention to him regarding rights, but we also have obligations. The world admires Blessed John XXIII, who amazed those around him with his moral, human, and theological principles. Those who read his “Diary Soul” know that he worked on the values ​​he possessed gradually and slowly, from his student years until he died Pope; he worked on himself again and cooperated with graces from God.

Talent is not only a gift but also a task, an obligation. Sv. Augustine realized the principle: “God, who created you without you, will not save you without you, without your cooperation.” Talent does not only require natural, physical work but also spiritual and mental engagement. In the parable, Jesus is concerned with our cooperation. We do not want to be like the servant who buried the talent and returned it as it was received. It is not enough to produce; when God wants more, we are obliged to fulfill the task with which we have been entrusted. The righteous, dishonest servant deserved the statement and the follow-up: “Throw away servant out into the darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Mt 25:30). Man need not fear God the Judge when he lives as God expects him to.