Monday, June 3, 2024
2 Pt 1:2-7; Mk 12:1-12
Today’s Gospel highlights the difference between the inexhaustible goodness of God (the landowner) and the inexhaustible wickedness of the tenants (the Jewish religious leaders).
The difference is obvious in at least two ways.
The opening verses of the Gospel give us an idea of the vineyard that is the cherished possession of the landowner. But the tenants want to lay claim to it. Hence, at first, the tenants want to exploit the landowner’s trust.
Secondly, they put the landowner to the test by robbing him of his everlasting patience. Despite their misbehavior with his servants, the good landowner sends out his beloved son, hoping that they will at least respect him.
The landowner is completely disappointed when the wicked tenants kill his beloved son in order to take over the property.
Who is wrong here: the landowner who trusts the tenants or the tenants who exploit the landowner’s trust and property?
God’s inexhaustible goodness is not a license for us to continue in our wickedness.
Rather, our unrepentance shatters every hope that God has in us to return to Him.
God should not be ashamed of His trust in us. Only we should be ashamed of failing Him.
God’s trust in us should serve as a motivation for our repentance.
Fr. Dhinakaran Savariyar
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