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Be fruitful! Bloom where God has planted you!!

Be fruitful! Bloom where God has planted you! (Homily 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Yr .A) The recurrent theme in today's readings, especially the first reading and the Gospel is that of coherence verses incoherence, fidelity verses infidelity. God is coherent and faithful to his words, but man is not.           In the first reading (Is. 5:1-7), we are presented with the canticle of the vineyard, which was composed by Isaiah at the early part of his prophetic ministry. But towards the end of the canticle, the last stanza equates the aforementioned vineyard allegorically with Israel, and as an expression of God's judgment on his people. The message of the first reading serves almost as the prophesy of the gospel reading. God had his vineyard on a fertile hill, he cleaned and cleared it of stones, he even built watchtower in the midst of it (to ensure there is security). But instead of producing grapes, it produced wild grape. What a disappointment? Let us not ...
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Do not question God's Generosity to Others!

Do Not Question God's Generosity To Others! (Homily for the 25th Sunday of Ord. Time Yr. A) Is. 55, 6-9; Phil. 1, 20-24; 27a; Mt. 20, 1-6a         In the liturgy of the Word today, the theme around which revolves the paramount message is the two ways “the way of man” and “the way of God”. The way of man is manifested in desire of human justice, sometimes expressed with envy: “They were murmuring against the Master saying: The men who came last have done only one hour, and you have treated them the same as us, though we have done a heavy day's work in all the heat” (Mt. 20:11-12). Afterwards, we see the way of God: “My friend, I am not being unjust to you; did we not agree on one denarius? Take your earnings and go. I choose to pay the last comer as much as I pay you” (Mt. 20:13-14). For this, in the first reading, the prophet makes it glaring: “My thoughts are not your thoughts and your ways are not my ways, declares Yahweh” (Is. 55:8-9). Above all, St. Paul in th...
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