Readings
I - Zep. 3: 1-2, 9-13
II - Mt. 21: 28-32
APPEARANCE IS DECEPTIVE
Today’s Gospel passage an invitation to integrity. The first son refused to go and work in the vineyard but later changed his mind and went to work. The second son seemed to have obeyed but failed to go to the vineyard. The chief priests and elders claimed themselves to be God’s own people and projected to be concerned about God’s work but in their pride and arrogance, slighted the invitation of John the Baptist and Jesus alike. Instead the rejected people: the tax collectors, prostitutes, Samaritans and the sinners were already aligning their ways according to the preaching of John the Baptist and Jesus.
We are in the grace filled season of advent supposed to be preparing ourselves to behold the Lord as He comes. Do we prepare ourselves for a conversion of heart or just be content with the rituals that we perform? Reflect and redefine your living unto the ways of God - this is Christian living. Today the Church celebrates the feast of St. John of the Cross, a mystic and the doctor of the Church. With great effort, courage and dynamism, revived and reformed the Carmelite way of life unto the ways of religious living. May this saint help us to become credible witnesses of Christ in our integrated living. May our mind and heart resonate with the prayer: Lord Jesus, help us to adhere to your teachings.
