St James Catholic Church

Someone once said, “There are no small parts, only small actors.”  Even actors with seemingly insignificant roles put everything they have into the part.  In our Gospel, both the servant who was given only two talents and the one who got but one seemed to have only bit roles on the day that the master gave out talents.  But one made the most of his, making the most of what he was given.  Trusted with a small amount, he can look forward to being entrusted with more and greater things.  Already he is invited to share his master’s joy.  Though given not even half as much as the first servant, he has also been proven worthy as a good and faithful servant.  So too do we strive to be proven good and faithful.  No matter how little we have been given, we are called to use it in service of something or someone greater than us.

When we share our talents, whether we realize it or not we are revealing God’s presence and proclaiming God’s generosity as strongly as if we were shouting it from the rooftops.  Perhaps this is what Jesus meant in his parable.  Not that God wants us to double our money by investing wisely, but that God wants us to share our gifts, to use our talents to build up the kingdom of God, to spread the Good News to all the world.  The final words to the two servants, “Come share your master’s joy,” sharing our God-given talents leads to sharing in God’s joy.

Love, Peace, Joy,

Fr. Bob