Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A 2026

Quite often when someone has finished their studies and begin their first job in their industry, they are full of zeal but are left with the rooky tasks and the tasks that no one else wanted to do.  This generally frustrates the worker that has spent so much time studying just to be left with basic tasks that probably does not require any qualifications to do.  In their frustration they get angry, whinge, complain, may try to do other task that they believe to be more meaningful and places little focus on the tasks at hand.  In doing this the worker is seen as incapable and incompetent in doing the basics, without the capacity to do anything more and therefore cannot advance in the industry, yet others will surpass the worker very quickly.   If someone cannot be left responsible with the smaller task a supervisor surely, will not give them greater tasks.

We have been given many talents and many gifts.  We have to use them to then best of our ability in every task we get.  Once we have opened ourselves to the gifts of the Holy Spirit and have used them greater pathways will be open to us.  We need to show that we are worthy of greater things.  Fear and anxiety may lead us to turn away from the tasks that God has given us.  We can either be afraid or too careless to try.  We can spend a lot of time contemplating the things we cannot do, becoming people we are not called to be and looking at the things that we do not have.  By doing this, we do not do the things that we can do, nor become our true selves, and let the things that we do have go to waste.  
We are called to become the best version of ourselves, using and utilising what He has given us.  Do you have the capacity to become who God is calling you to be or have you proven yourself incapable?