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NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Monday
Year II
Readings
First Reading
2 Pt 1:2–7
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 91:1–2, 14–15b, 15c–16
Gospel
Mk 12:1–12
Meditation on Today’s Readings Taken from
the Vatican
II Sunday and Weekday Missal
Written by Celia Sirois
The parables of Jesus that the Gospel writers
recount naturally reflect their respective concerns. Here Mark has
expanded Jesus’ parable of the vineyard and appended to it
two verses from Psalm 118 in order to drive his point home: the
rejection of Jesus by some of the leaders of Israel was a tragic
mistake. To discover the original meaning of the parable as Jesus
told it is more difficult. Pheme Perkins suggests that we consider
the owner of the vineyard and the manner in which he deals with
the tenants.* In a way he is like Tobit, a good
man who does not conform to the logic of the world, but who conducts
himself by another law. So he appeals repeatedly to the tenants
and even sends his son, while his neighbors and perhaps even we
wonder, “Will this man never learn!”
Jesus seems to say: such is the power of
God. Peter adds that this is the divine power that has “bestowed
on us everything that makes for life and devotion.” This is
the divine nature we are called to share.
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