A Summative Look at Jesus' Long Catechesis of the Vineyard
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Homily for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea, Gladstone, Qld.
"Let me sing to my friend the song of his love for his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He dug the soil, cleared it of stones and planted choice vines in it. In the middle he built a tower, he dug a press there too. He expected it to yield grapes,
but sour grapes were all that it gave." (cf. Is 5).
"The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel; You brought a vine out of Egypt; to plant it you drove out the nations. It stretched out its branches to the sea, to the Great River it stretched out its shoots. Then why have you broken down its walls? It is plucked by all who pass by. It is ravaged by the boar of the forest, devoured by the beasts of the field. God of hosts, turn again, we implore, look down from heaven and see. Visit this vine and protect it, the vine your right hand has planted. And we shall never forsake you again; give us life that we may call upon your name. God of hosts, bring us back; let your face shine on us and we shall be saved." (Ps 80).
"There is no need to worry; but if there is anything you need, pray for it; guard your hearts and your thoughts, in Christ Jesus... fill your minds with everything that is true, everything that is noble, everything that is good and pure, everything that we love and honour, and everything that can be thought virtuous or worthy of praise. Keep doing all the things that you learnt [knowing] the God of peace will be with you." (cf Phil 4:6-9).
"Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people, ‘Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad... [Beware] that the kingdom of God [is not] taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.’" (cf. Mt 21:33-43).
Artwork: "Parable of the Vineyard" by Jacob Willemszoon de Wet, (mid-17th century).
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