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 ...