Message from Augie

In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us the story about some people who forget what actually is happening.  Land owners plants a vineyard.  He outs a fence around it and digs a wine oppress and builds a watchtower.  Then he leases the vineyard to tenants and goes away.  The tenants are not trespassers.  They haven’t stolen their way onto the property.  The owner has placed the vineyard in their hands. And apparently, they know how to run it.  Harvest times comes.

Then the owner sends his servants to collect his produce. Somewhere along the way they forgot what was there is and what was the owners.  It is surprisingly easy to confuse what has been entrusted us with what belongs to us.  It happens with money.  It happens with atrocity and it happens with institutions.  It can happen with families and churches.  We work for something sacrifice for it, protect it, perhaps even make it better, and gradually an almost word enters the vocabulary: MINE.

The question then, is not simply what belongs to us.  I is what we will do with the trust committed to us .None of them becomes less precious to us we cannot keep it.  Perhaps the opposite is true.  Knowing that something has been entrusted to us for a time.  Knowing that something to us. For a time can make us more attentive to what we do with tit while it is here?

The tenants saw the owner’s son coming and decided if they could get rid of him, the vineyard would finally be theirs.  They had forgotten something. It had never stopped belonging to the owner.

SO THE QUESTION:   CAN WE LET GO OF THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ENTRUSTED TO US?

PRAYER TO ST. JUDE:  St. Jude, apostle of Christ, the church honors and prays to you universally as the patron of hopeless and difficult cases.   Pray for us in our needs.   Make use, we implore you of this powerful privilege given to you to bring visible and speedy help where help is needed.  Pray that we humbly accept the trials and disappointments and mistakes which are a part of our human nature.   Help us to see the reflection of the suffering of Christ in the trials and tribulations of our lives.   Let us see in a spirit of great faith and hop the part we even now share in the joy of Christ’s resurrection and which we long to share fully in heaven.   Intercede that we may again experience this joy in answer to our present needs.   If it is God’s dire for us (here make your request)  we know our prayers will be heard through your intercession.  AMEN