Please read these passages before reading the homily.
My sisters and brothers,
The readings today celebrate the vineyard of the Lord. The vineyard of the Lord is the House of Israel. The reading from Isaiah and the gospel treat of the same vineyard.
For Isaiah the vineyard is bad because it produces sour grapes. For Jesus the vineyard produces its fruits, but the workers of the vineyard are bad. Always is the vineyard of the Lord, which is the Houe of Orael, beloved by the Lord. Through Israel’s time of Exile, God cleansed God’s house because God is merciful.
The wording of the two readings are similar. God planted a vineyard. God dug out a wine press in it. God built a tower. The vineyard of Isaiah and Jesus are identical.
The heir of the vineyard is the Son of Man. He came to receive the crop. The workers threw him out of the vineyard and killed him outside the city. “They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard and filled him.”
The House Israel, which are the Jewish people, are the people which God is always choosing. God does not repent of this choice. The vineyard of the Lord, which is the House of Israel, is always God’s choice and love.
The Church of Christ, built up through the death and resurrection of Christ, has been inserted into the vineyard of Israel. We, together with the Jewish people, now make up the vineyard of then Lord which God loves very much through the saving work of Christ.
We should give thanks to the Jewish people for remaining faithful to their covenant with God. We should give thanks to God for inserting us into God’s vineyard, which is the House of Israel.
God always chooses God’s own house, which is the vineyard of the Lord. On the other hand, God warned the Jewish people to repent of their sin and likewise warns us to repent and reminds us that God has chosen and loves us.
The vineyard of the lord is the House of Israel, the Church of Christ, and God loves us and cherishes us always.