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Prayer in the heart Friday of the
second week of Lent come Holy Spirit,

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without you there is no life worth
living. Therefore, from my doubts,

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fears, wearyness and weaknesses, I
want to invoke you come Holy Spirit to

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water what is dry Come to strengthen
what is weak come to settle what is

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sick. Amen today we celebrate Saint
Rosendo of Ceranova the Gospels of examatheus chapter

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twenty- one verses thirty- three
onwards. At that time, Jesus told

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the high priests and elders of the
people listen to another parable. There was

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an owner who planted a vineyard,
surrounded it by a fence, dug a

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winepress in it, built a tower, surrendered it to the husbandmen and left

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far away. The time has come
for the fruits. He sent his servants

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to the husbandmen to perceive the fruits
that corresponded to him. But the husbandmen,

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grabbing the servants, beat one,
killed another, and others stoned him.

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He sent other servants again more than
the first time and they did the

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same to them. Finally, he
sent his son to them, saying they

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will have respect, they will have
respect for my son, but the husbandmen,

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when they saw children, told him
this is the heir to come.

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We killed him and we kept his
inheritance and grabbed them, stroked him out

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of the vineyard and killed him.
When the owner of the vineyard returns,

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what he will do with those husbandmen
answer him. He will die, he

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will call the death of his evil
ones, and he will rent the vineyard

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to other husbandmen who will hand over
the utes to him in due time,

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and Jesus tells them you have never
read in the scripture. The stone that

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the architects rejected is now the pidrangular
stone. That, sir, which has

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done so has been a clear miracle, for that is why I tell you

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that the Kingdom of God will be
taken away from you and given to a

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people that will bear its fruits,
the highs, priests and the Pharisees.

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When they heard his parables, they
understood that he was speaking of them,

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and though they tried to lay hands
on him, they feared the people who

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had him as a prophet. Our
Lord tells us another story of today'

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s Gospel. Jesus loved to preach
through parables, for so all people could

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easily understand him and each one could
draw from them the teachings and applications relevant

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to his own life. Today he
tells us the story of a vineyard and

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vinemakers, and also on this occasion
he addresses his high priests and the leaders

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of the people. There was a
rich owner who owned a vineyard and,

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despite being the owner, he himself
was in charge of planting it, caring

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for it, watering it, fertilizing
it, digging it, etc. You

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' re all more like a laborer
than a farmer. But in this data

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we find a very rich and suggestive
medium. With that description, our lord

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wanted to remind his listeners of another
very similar story that he had already told

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to the prophet Isaiah, to the
Israelites eight centuries earlier, the friend’

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s song to his vineyard. There
it appears with a Melidian clarity, the

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message The owner of the vineyard is
God and cares for it with infinite love

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and affection, the plant, the
water and the bona with his own hands.

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Reco builds it, Molde, builds
a fence to protect it from wild

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animals. But instead of giving him
some good barbs, the vineyard gives him

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gracias. Then God will complain smugly. What else could I have done for

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my vineyard that I didn' t
do. Then why, waiting for him

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to give good grapes, he only
gave gritty grapes. The vineyard is the

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people of Israel, which does not
correspond to all the care with which the

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lord has treated him. He'
s been ungrateful and unfaithful. This is

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the vineyard of which our lord speaks
in this parable. But there is another

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interesting time that this speaks of vinemakers
cabbages and iniquities that kill all envoys of

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the help of the vineyard’ s
nuño, until finally the owner decides to

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send his own son. Let us
look very closely at the words of the

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murderous vinemakers. This is the heir
Let' s kill him and keep his

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inheritance. Add us, sir,
grab him, push him out of the

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vineyard and kill him. True,
it is clear to us the allusion to

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the prophets and to Jesus Christ himself, with how few strokes paint the drama

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of the passion that will shortly have
to suffer at the hands of the Jews.

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So does he. They grabbed him, pushed him out of town and

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killed him. He was killed hanging
on a stake. And what will the

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owner of the vineyard do with his
shining questions Jesus to the high priests.

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They will contain themselves as by their
own mouth. He will kill his wicked

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and give the vineyard to other husbandmen
who will deliver the fruits to him in

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due season. That' s what
those homicidal vine growers are. This parable

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is the story of the Israelite people
and after the death of Christ, the

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Jewish people will be scattered and the
vineyard will pass away other hands. The

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ancient Israel will disappear, the new
vineyard will now be the Church of Christ

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and the swindlers, the apostles,
the Pope, the bishops, the priests.

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However, this vineyard can also be
you and I, so many gifts

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that we have received from God with
so much love and delicacy and that perhaps

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we have not always responded to those
cares of heavenly vinemaker is more, perhaps

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we have not given him good fruits, but only bitter and rotten grapes Christ

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is hoping that we also give him
the others in his time what fruits He

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has given Good- bye to this
day in your life. God builds on

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my reality, on the grapes in
me. The wine gets out of my

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grape. He doesn' t need
any other grapes. He' s happy

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for mine, with its color and
size. She' s the one he

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wants. What does God do,
when he does not get his fruit,

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what does the owner of the vineyard
in this parable. Jesus ended up asking

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people who might not know that he
was talking about them. He asks them

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for their opinion and they respond.
We men meditate one way and God another.

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Men say that God will punish,
that he will kill that one.

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That is often our idea of God, and so we think that it must

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be justice is to kill the wicked
and to return the same. Jesus does

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not answer this, because God will
never withdraw his love from us. Jesus

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’ death was God’ s greatest
embrace of man. It was the true

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gate, forgiveness to all, the
way to heaven. On the winepress of

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his death begins life. On what
men rejected, the world stands. It

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' s the cornerstone. Sometimes it' s like that. The strongest is

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built upon the weakest, because my
weakness, upon my duty, God becomes

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strong. That rock of the golgotha
which held the cross, which was broken

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by the weight of God, nailed
and given, which was cracked by his

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shed blood. That rock is our
pillar, our most secure support. Today,

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Jesus is full of tenderness for his
own by the vineyard of our soul

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that without him does not bear fruit, we just have to open it to

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him is at the door and calls
us the vineyard. It is we who

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have sealed a covenant with God,
a covenant of faithfulness, a covenant to

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change the world with our life,
with our yes, with our surrender.

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We have said yes and we have
committed ourselves, but then life, circumstances,

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fears have made us offer the way. The vineyard is our dedicated life,

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which is lost if it is not
cared for, it does not bear

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fruit, if it catches us,
it works patiently every day. I am

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the blessing God, almighty bless you
with all kinds of heavenly comings so that

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you may be holy and repulsable by
his Rami presence upon you. The richness

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of his grace instructs you with the
word of truth and with the vajel of

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observation and enriches you, with the
fraternal charity and blessing of God, father,

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son and holy spirit, descend upon
you and remain always amen