Month: November 2014

The familiar Gospel story of the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30) gives an account of the man who went abroad and decided to entrust his property to his servants. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to a third one; each in…

“Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has…

In today’s Gospel Jesus explains to the Pharisees that there are no greater commandments in the whole law of God than the commandments of love ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all…

Today readings focus on the vineyard of the Lord. In the first reading the prophet Isaiah sees Israel as God’s unsatisfactory vineyard. Israel, God’s first chosen people, did not produce the fruit expected of them. God found fault with them…