27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

When one plans to buy fish from a fish vendor, the former does not ask how the latter caught them but how much does he sell them. The vendee does not bother whether the vendor had a hard time or easy time in catching fish. All he needs to know is their price.  Today in our Gospel, Luke 17:5-10,  we are reminded not to count how many good deeds we made, what sacrifices we did, or how many times we prayed in a day. We have to do good during better times as well as during our worse times. We cannot be confident that we have done enough. We cannot say that with all we have been through in life, we can take some timeout in doing good. What we have to say at the end of the day, "I am but a servant doing what I supposed to do." It is never enough but always lacking. It is not how many good things that matters but the price you get from the fruits of your labor. In heaven, we don't boast on the numbers of good deeds rather we say, "We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty."