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Year C: Third Sunday of Lent
The Gospel:
Luke 13:1-9
Today’s
Gospel shows us that, although Jesus is compassionate, He is
also pretty direct in His insistence that people change their
ways.
Jesus uses events that were happening around Him to warn people
of the consequences of not repenting - the Galileans and the
people at Siloam were not any better or any worse than anybody
else - but Jesus suggests that they were not ready for death -
perhaps they had not fully made their peace with God and the
neighbour.
At first sight, this seems terrifying - for who can ever truly
be ready to “meet their Maker”?
The parable of the Unfruitful Fig-Tree offers some hope. In it,
the owner of the vineyard orders the tree to be cut down but is
persuaded to wait a little longer.
The man who looks after the vineyard suggests giving it another
year, during which he will try a few tricks of the trade to see
whether it can be brought into fruiting. If after all that, it
still fails to produce fruit, then it is just a waste of space
and should give way to something more fruitful.
What does it mean
for me?
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Where is your life
bearing fruit?
Are you holding back from something that you sense God is asking of
you?
What?
And what needs to be done so that you can respond?
What remains to be done before you are ready to “meet your Maker”? |
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