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\u00a0Christian is not a “maintenance worker”, but an active disciple.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Gospel passage for next Sunday (Mt 25, 14-30) brings Jesus’ parable about the master who entrusted his servants with talents.\u00a0At first glance, perhaps paradoxically, the servant, who faithfully tried to preserve the entrusted talent, was severely punished by the master.\u00a0The listener is thus again invited to think, with consequences for his own life, in what the servant from the parable made a mistake and why the remaining two servants received praise.\u00a0Financial environment<\/strong>\u00a0To avoid misunderstanding, the Greek word “talanton” = “talent” is not an expression of “talent, skill”, but was the largest Greek monetary and weight unit.\u00a01 talent represented 6000 denars and roughly 34 to 41 kilograms.\u00a0If we consider that an ordinary worker earned 1 denarius in one day’s work, then the entrusted amount of money was not small at all, even in the case of the last servant, to whom the master entrusted “only” 1 talent.\u00a0In his case, it was converted to earnings for 6,000 days of work, i.e.\u00a0after deducting the holidays, it was 20 years of work.\u00a0So the analogy comes from the financial environment.\u00a0The first two servants multiplied the amount of money entrusted to them.\u00a0This is expressed by the expressions “erg\u00e1zomai” = “trade”, “kerd\u00e1ino” = “get”, “trapez\u00edtes” = “money changer”, “t\u00f3kos” = “interest”.\u00a0In today’s eyes, the first two servants took a big risk, because in the case of a wrong investment, they would lose everything.\u00a0If it was their money, then we say, let them do what they want with it.\u00a0But the money was entrusted to them.\u00a0They shouldn’t have taken such a gamble.\u00a0What if it didn’t work out for them?\u00a0The third servant took a “conservative” approach to managing finances.\u00a0After all, it was other people’s money, so he was careful.\u00a0He did not suffer a loss and returned the entrusted sum of money to the master.\u00a0So he was careful and prudent.\u00a0However, the final assessment turns everything upside down.\u00a0The first and second servants are praised as the “faithful and good servant,” while the third as the “bad and lazy servant.”\u00a0Did we miss something?\u00a0According to ability<\/strong>\u00a0The parable states that the amount of money entrusted corresponded to the ability of each servant.\u00a0That is, none of them received something that was beyond his strength.\u00a0The third servant erred because he did nothing.\u00a0He did not trade, nor did he leave it to others who could trade with a profit (money changer).\u00a0A Christian is not one who resigns and infests the whole world with talk that nothing can be done and the only thing left is to retreat into the shell of our own comfort and wait.\u00a0Whoever does this has not understood the will of the Lord at all.\u00a0Instead of spending energy looking for arguments about how bad the world is, how everyone has conspired against us, let’s focus on what we can do at the moment.\u00a0The Lord will not ask us about others, but about what we did.<\/span><\/p>\n

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