Marcel LeJeune on the Parable of the Talents

" Reading the parable of talents, I was hit between the eyes with this sentence: ‘But the man who received one (talent) went off and dug a hole in the ground and buried his master's money.’

“A talent is a coin worth about 17 years worth of wages. In today's modern income, this would be equivalent of about $750,000 today. This is no small amount of money. The point of the story is there is a great wealth we have been given and digging holes to bury God's gifts can get us in serious trouble.

 “Jesus is letting you and I know we all have been given great gifts. Sometimes we look at other's gifts and compare our own. Think of the man with 10 talents - $7.5 million - what would the servant with only 1 talent think of him?

•If I only had his money.

•I could really do something good with that.

•I deserve it as much as he does. . . .”

In a recent commentary, Marcel LeJeune reflected on this parable may apply to our own lives..

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