This Sunday's readings present us with two images that are both beautiful and very challenging: the vineyard and the fruit. At first reading, the prophet Isaiah speaks of a man who owned a vineyard and did everything in his power to make it bear good grapes.

“Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who bear fruit . ” Who are these new people? They are the Church of Christ. The Church of Jesus Christ has four essential characteristics : one, holy, universal, and powerful and firm (based on the apostles).

If listening to an apostle of Christ is equivalent to listening to Christ, then the apostle of Christ takes Christ's place. Therefore, he is the apostle of Christ. In ancient times, the apostle served as the king's representative; everything done to the apostle was considered as if it had been done to the king. Therefore, Christ appoints us as His apostles, saying, "He who listens to you listens to me, and he who rejects you rejects me" (Lk 10:16). From this, our extremely

Today we commemorate Saint Teresa of Lisieux . She lived for a short time, but she was a great saint. In fact, her entire family lived in great holiness. Her parents were saints. All five of her daughters became nuns.

Today, as a church, we celebrate with great joy the feast of the three great archangels, Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel, and Saint Raphael. They are messengers of God. They have been sent to fulfill God's will and to show mankind His love, protection, and salvation.

The readings we listened to today invite us to reflect on a very important issue for our lives: Do we live our faith only through words, or do we live it through concrete actions that change our lives? At first reading, the prophet Ezekiel introduces us to a God who never tires of offering humanity the opportunity to change their lives.

Today we remember the life of Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, one of the most renowned and beloved priests in the history of the Church. Padre Pio was a priest deeply devoted to Christ, the Holy Eucharist, and humanity. As a visible sign of his deep connection with the Passion of Christ, he went down in history as the first priest to bear the marks of Christ's wounds, or stigmata, on his body. He carried these scars for nearly fifty years.

In today's Bible, Jesus tells the parable of the workers hired in the last hour. The story goes like this: A man left his house at dawn to hire workers for his vineyard. Some were hired early in the morning and therefore worked under the sun all day. In the later hours of the day, around five o'clock, the employer hired others; these worked for only one hour, from five to six. When it was time to pay the wages, the employer gave everyone the same amount. One of those w

Yesterday, in the Bible, we heard about a sinful woman falling at Jesus' feet and receiving forgiveness from him. Today we see the fruit of that same transformation: a woman beginning to follow in Jesus' footsteps.

Today's Gospel tells us about a sinful woman. She enters Simon's house, approaches Jesus, and falls at his feet. She washes Jesus' feet with her tears, dries them with her hair, kisses them, and anoints them with fragrant oil. This woman doesn't try to defend her past or hide her sins.

Yesterday, as a church, we celebrated the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Today we commemorate the suffering of the Virgin Mary. The fact that these two days fall consecutively is no coincidence, because Mary's suffering is deeply linked to the Cross of Christ. This devotion to the Virgin Mary developed from the earliest days of the Church and deepened particularly through reflection on Mary's participation in Jesus' suffering and death.

The main message of today's service readings and the Bible is forgiveness. The first reading taken from the book of Sirach reads as follows: Hatred and anger are abhorrent things… Forgive your neighbor for the wrong he has done to you; thus, when you pray, your sins will be forgiven.

In today's Bible, Jesus teaches us something very important: we should look at our own lives before looking at the lives of others. Jesus says, “You see the speck in your brother’s eye, but why do you not notice the beam in your own eye?”

My dear brothers and sisters, In today's Gospel, Jesus shows us the path to true happiness by saying, "Blessed are you." Jesus tells the poor, the hungry, the weeping, and those persecuted for His sake how fortunate they are.

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary with great joy . Today, we commemorate the birth of Mary, whom God chose to be the Mother of the Savior.

Today's readings remind us of a crucial truth for our Christian lives: we are responsible for one another's well-being. To steer a sibling away from the wrong path, we must lovingly warn them and also be humble enough to accept warnings when necessary.

This Sunday's Word of God confronts us with a very important question: What does it really mean to follow Jesus? In the Gospel, Jesus begins by explaining to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, suffer, be rejected, die, and rise again. However, Peter cannot accept this path. He wants a Messiah without suffering, without the cross, without self-denial.

In the modern version of the Bible, Jesus gives Peter the task of being the leader of the Apostles; he appoints him as the first pope in history and establishes his Church upon him, Peter. Therefore, today I would like to reflect with you on the fundamental characteristics of the Church of Christ. For this, I will make use of Saint Thomas Aquinas's work , "Commentary on the Creed."

My dear brothers, it is clear that the servants who did not want to go to the king's son's wedding were Jews. The wedding , as Saint Gregory said, is the union of human nature and divine nature (in the person of the Word) in the womb of the Virgin Mary.

Today, the Word of God gives us a very important and timely message: God excludes no one. Our Lord came for everyone, and His house should be a house of prayer for all peoples. In the first reading, the prophet Isaiah declares that even strangers who turn to the Lord, love Him, and want to walk in His way will be accepted.