Written by: fralex
10/4/2008 9:34 PM

Dear Parishioners,

In a fundamental sense, we really own nothing. When it comes to all of our money, our house, our clothes, our possessions, our time, our talent, it is like the landowner in the Gospel letting the tenant farmers work in the vineyard. When we can accept that we are tenants –or stewards and that God is the owner, then we can be grateful for what a good landowner we have, and happily give to God what is rightfully his; his share of the harvest. If we forget who the real owner is and persist in believing that we own our time, our treasure or our talent, then the servants whom God sends to collect his share of the harvest will be seen as a nuisance, a bother. These servants that God sends may come in the form of a charity making an appeal for funds; or the parish council requesting a percentage of our income in our church envelopes. Maybe God will collect his share through our volunteering to help the boy scouts or girl scouts, or by our being a catechist in the religious education program or even through raking the leaves in a neighbor’s yard. In today’s parable it is clear; the owner wants his share of the grapes. In our relationship with the Lord, we can never give him all he is due, but we can live in acknowledgment of his right to ask anything of us, even our lives. Let us pray that we may live generously, making a return to the Lord with the time, talent and treasure with which he has gifted us.

Blessings are upon you and your family, my good people of God!

Fr. Alex Dalpiaz, c.s.
Pastor

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