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What is the meaning of the parable for us, two thousand years after Jesus offered this invitation to conversion? All creation, the whole web of life, has been given to us by God to tend. It is our responsibility to live out our faith by caring for one another and for God’s creation, the natural environment. We can do this by standing alongside the poor and oppressed who cry out because they are most severely affected by environmental destruction, exploitation, and climate change.
We are not powerless in the face of the situation of the world today. Is God, our loving Father, to blame for hunger and homelessness, extreme drought and flooding, famine and disease? Rather, it is all of us when we overuse and abuse our natural resources, and squirrel away what God has destined for the good of all. If selfishness and greed beget suffering and death, what can we do?
I believe that Saint Francis is the example par excellence of care for the vulnerable and of an integral ecology lived out joyfully and authentically … Francis helps us to see that an integral ecology calls for openness to categories which transcend the language of mathematics and biology, and take us to the heart of what it is to be human. (10-11)
The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change. The Creator does not abandon us: he never forsakes his loving plan or repents of having created us. Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home. (13)
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FIRST READING
In the 1st Reading, who is the prophet’s “friend”? How can we tell he owns and cares about the vineyard? Is he within his rights to allow the wild and unproductive field to go its own way and to start over again?
In Jesus’ parable, who (or what) is represented as the landowner? The vineyard? The tenants? The servants? The son?
SECOND READING
In the 2nd Reading, what are the things that St. Paul tells will help us stay focused on God?
GOSPEL
What corresponds to the son’s death? To the removal of the wretched tenants?
SOURCE: SundayScriptureStudy.com
The Vineyard of the Lord
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The parable from the Book of Isaiah in the First Reading, the Psalm Reading, and the Gospel Reading represent the Old Covenant Church as God’s “vineyard.” It is one of the symbolic images the Old Testament prophets used to describe the condition of God’s relationship or lack of a one with His covenant people.
Michal E Hunt, Copyright © 2014; revised 2023 Agape Bible Study; used with permission
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Richard Niell Donovan, a retired Disciples of Christ clergyman, published Sermon writer for more than two decades. When Dick died in 2020, his wife, Dale, has graciously kept the website online free of charge.
Matthew 21:33-46
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Whose Vineyard Is It, Anyway?
Looking back to the Old Testament, the Parable of the Wicked Tenants is similar in many ways to Isaiah’s Song of the Vineyard. (See Isaiah 5:1-7)
Wicked Tenants
At the heart of your computer is the central operating system. It determines how everything runs on your computer. This text says that Jesus is to be the central operating system of our lives.
Speaking of Us
I love the last line of the text. “When the Pharisees realized that Jesus was speaking of them, they wanted to arrest him and made plans to kill him. ‘He was speaking of us’ they said.” Well, duh!
Stewards of the Planet
In the midst of the War of 1812, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry said, “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” Some 150 years later, Walt Kelly’s possum, Pogo turned it into, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
The Chosen People
Jesus is in the temple and things are starting to heat up. In parable after parable, he is trying to slap the religious leaders awake. They are the problem not the solution.
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Conflict is part of every day. There are some conflicts that need to be reduced. Other conflicts are part of the human condition. What does not help is ignoring conflicts – whether they are conflicts to be solved, or conflicts to be learnt from. The gospel texts are replete with dynamics of conflict: occupation; internal conflict between people about whether one should or shouldn’t work for an occupying force; conflict about the inclusion of others; conflict about the role of leadership and the role of popular voices.
