Message from Father Jim
20th September 2026
Time is one of the greatest gifts God gives us. We cannot hold on to it, store it up or go back and reclaim it; we are given the time we have now as an opportunity to live, to serve, to grow and to make a difference. In today’s Gospel, we are reminded of the generosity of the landowner. Jesus is not simply teaching us about wages or fairness. There is something much deeper here about opportunity, purpose and how we respond to the time that is available to us. The landowner goes out at different times — early in the morning, at the third hour, the sixth hour, the ninth hour and finally at the eleventh hour. Some have almost the whole day; others have only one hour. Yet when the day ends, what matters is not simply how long they have been there, but what they have done with the opportunity they have been given. Perhaps that is the challenge for each of us: not to dwell on the time that has passed or worry about the time we may have left, but to ask what we will do with the time we have now — the time God has placed in our hands today
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