Mass Readings for Wednesday, August 18, 2027

Gospel Matthew 20:1-16

• 1“The kingdom of heaven is like the father of a family who went out in early morning to lead workers into his vineyard.

• 2Then, having made an agreement with the workers for one denarius per day, he sent them into his vineyard.

• 3And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

• 4And he said to them, ‘You may go into my vineyard, too, and what I will give you will be just.’

• 5So they went forth. But again, he went out about the sixth, and about the ninth hour, and he acted similarly.

• 6Yet truly, about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, ‘Why have you stood here idle all day?’

• 7They say to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also may go into my vineyard.’

• 8And when evening had arrived, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last, even to the first.’

• 9And so, when those who had arrived about the eleventh hour came forward, each received a single denarius.

• 10Then when the first ones also came forward, they considered that they would receive more. But they, too, received one denarius.

• 11And upon receiving it, they murmured against the father of the family,

• 12saying, ‘These last have worked for one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who worked bearing the weight and heat of the day.’

• 13But responding to one of them, he said: ‘Friend, I caused you no injury. Did you not agree with me to one denarius?

• 14Take what is yours and go. But it is my will to give to this last, just as to you.

• 15And is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Or is your eye wicked because I am good?’

• 16So then, the last shall be first, and the first shall be last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Matthew 20