Prayer in the heart Friday of the second week of Lent come Holy Spirit,
without you there is no life worth living. Therefore, from my doubts,
fears, wearyness and weaknesses, I want to invoke you come Holy Spirit to
water what is dry Come to strengthen what is weak come to settle what is
sick. Amen today we celebrate Saint Rosendo of Ceranova the Gospels of examatheus chapter
twenty- one verses thirty- three onwards. At that time, Jesus told
the high priests and elders of the people listen to another parable. There was
an owner who planted a vineyard, surrounded it by a fence, dug a
winepress in it, built a tower, surrendered it to the husbandmen and left
far away. The time has come for the fruits. He sent his servants
to the husbandmen to perceive the fruits that corresponded to him. But the husbandmen,
grabbing the servants, beat one, killed another, and others stoned him.
He sent other servants again more than the first time and they did the
same to them. Finally, he sent his son to them, saying they
will have respect, they will have respect for my son, but the husbandmen,
when they saw children, told him this is the heir to come.
We killed him and we kept his inheritance and grabbed them, stroked him out
of the vineyard and killed him. When the owner of the vineyard returns,
what he will do with those husbandmen answer him. He will die, he
will call the death of his evil ones, and he will rent the vineyard
to other husbandmen who will hand over the utes to him in due time,
and Jesus tells them you have never read in the scripture. The stone that
the architects rejected is now the pidrangular stone. That, sir, which has
done so has been a clear miracle, for that is why I tell you
that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a
people that will bear its fruits, the highs, priests and the Pharisees.
When they heard his parables, they understood that he was speaking of them,
and though they tried to lay hands on him, they feared the people who
had him as a prophet. Our Lord tells us another story of today'
s Gospel. Jesus loved to preach through parables, for so all people could
easily understand him and each one could draw from them the teachings and applications relevant
to his own life. Today he tells us the story of a vineyard and
vinemakers, and also on this occasion he addresses his high priests and the leaders
of the people. There was a rich owner who owned a vineyard and,
despite being the owner, he himself was in charge of planting it, caring
for it, watering it, fertilizing it, digging it, etc. You
' re all more like a laborer than a farmer. But in this data
we find a very rich and suggestive medium. With that description, our lord
wanted to remind his listeners of another very similar story that he had already told
to the prophet Isaiah, to the Israelites eight centuries earlier, the friend’
s song to his vineyard. There it appears with a Melidian clarity, the
message The owner of the vineyard is God and cares for it with infinite love
and affection, the plant, the water and the bona with his own hands.
Reco builds it, Molde, builds a fence to protect it from wild
animals. But instead of giving him some good barbs, the vineyard gives him
gracias. Then God will complain smugly. What else could I have done for
my vineyard that I didn' t do. Then why, waiting for him
to give good grapes, he only gave gritty grapes. The vineyard is the
people of Israel, which does not correspond to all the care with which the
lord has treated him. He' s been ungrateful and unfaithful. This is
the vineyard of which our lord speaks in this parable. But there is another
interesting time that this speaks of vinemakers cabbages and iniquities that kill all envoys of
the help of the vineyard’ s nuño, until finally the owner decides to
send his own son. Let us look very closely at the words of the
murderous vinemakers. This is the heir Let' s kill him and keep his
inheritance. Add us, sir, grab him, push him out of the
vineyard and kill him. True, it is clear to us the allusion to
the prophets and to Jesus Christ himself, with how few strokes paint the drama
of the passion that will shortly have to suffer at the hands of the Jews.
So does he. They grabbed him, pushed him out of town and
killed him. He was killed hanging on a stake. And what will the
owner of the vineyard do with his shining questions Jesus to the high priests.
They will contain themselves as by their own mouth. He will kill his wicked
and give the vineyard to other husbandmen who will deliver the fruits to him in
due season. That' s what those homicidal vine growers are. This parable
is the story of the Israelite people and after the death of Christ, the
Jewish people will be scattered and the vineyard will pass away other hands. The
ancient Israel will disappear, the new vineyard will now be the Church of Christ
and the swindlers, the apostles, the Pope, the bishops, the priests.
However, this vineyard can also be you and I, so many gifts
that we have received from God with so much love and delicacy and that perhaps
we have not always responded to those cares of heavenly vinemaker is more, perhaps
we have not given him good fruits, but only bitter and rotten grapes Christ
is hoping that we also give him the others in his time what fruits He
has given Good- bye to this day in your life. God builds on
my reality, on the grapes in me. The wine gets out of my
grape. He doesn' t need any other grapes. He' s happy
for mine, with its color and size. She' s the one he
wants. What does God do, when he does not get his fruit,
what does the owner of the vineyard in this parable. Jesus ended up asking
people who might not know that he was talking about them. He asks them
for their opinion and they respond. We men meditate one way and God another.
Men say that God will punish, that he will kill that one.
That is often our idea of God, and so we think that it must
be justice is to kill the wicked and to return the same. Jesus does
not answer this, because God will never withdraw his love from us. Jesus
’ death was God’ s greatest embrace of man. It was the true
gate, forgiveness to all, the way to heaven. On the winepress of
his death begins life. On what men rejected, the world stands. It
' s the cornerstone. Sometimes it' s like that. The strongest is
built upon the weakest, because my weakness, upon my duty, God becomes
strong. That rock of the golgotha which held the cross, which was broken
by the weight of God, nailed and given, which was cracked by his
shed blood. That rock is our pillar, our most secure support. Today,
Jesus is full of tenderness for his own by the vineyard of our soul
that without him does not bear fruit, we just have to open it to
him is at the door and calls us the vineyard. It is we who
have sealed a covenant with God, a covenant of faithfulness, a covenant to
change the world with our life, with our yes, with our surrender.
We have said yes and we have committed ourselves, but then life, circumstances,
fears have made us offer the way. The vineyard is our dedicated life,
which is lost if it is not cared for, it does not bear
fruit, if it catches us, it works patiently every day. I am
the blessing God, almighty bless you with all kinds of heavenly comings so that
you may be holy and repulsable by his Rami presence upon you. The richness
of his grace instructs you with the word of truth and with the vajel of
observation and enriches you, with the fraternal charity and blessing of God, father,
son and holy spirit, descend upon you and remain always amen