Refreshing Bread - daily meditation from the Word of God.

Meditation by Fr. Iuliu Muntean

Matthew 25:1-13

Meditation:

Like the five foolish virgins, many people today do not feed the lamp of their heart with the wisdom of the Gospel. People need hope in order to encounter Jesus! How many books of the Gospels, in a lot of families, remain closed almost all the time, because those people are attracted to completely different thoughts and focus on their own problems?

The Christian life should not be reduced to a list of duties to perform, sins to not commit or prayers to “recite”. The Christian life must be open to Jesus and the will of the one who sent Him. When we accept Jesus, it makes sense to live, because in that way we are focused on the desire to know, love, imitate, wait, and accept our merciful Savior.

In this parable, Jesus mentions that the door is closed immediately after the entrance of the Bridegroom. The five foolish virgins, who had gone for additional oil for their lamps, arrived late and could not enter the marriage feast. Not only that, but when they knocked, a voice answered from inside: “I do not know you!”

The Lord created us, knows us and loves us. In fact, it is not him who does not want to know us, who does not want to recognize us. No, not at all; it’s about the unwary, about those who during their lifetime have not cared to know and love Jesus, to approach him and to follow him. They are guided by their own thoughts, desires and actions in the opposite direction of God. They live “as if God did not exist” and therefore they deliberately remove themselves from the eyes of Jesus ...

Let us seek Jesus, let us come every day to Him, let us try to live with Him in an authentic "communion of love". Then Jesus “will know us”, and we will enter with him to the wedding feast: the eternal marriage!

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Refreshing Bread - daily meditation from the Word of God.

Meditation by Fr. Iuliu Muntean (RCD Canton, Ohio) on Mark 12:1-22

Meditation:

The purpose of this parable is nothing else but the growth of the goods that God has given or "planted" in us.

The owner of the vineyard is God the Father. The vineyard is the people of Israel, led by dishonest leaders, to whom the Lord sent his prophets, and finally his own Son. With the coming of the Messiah, we can now see the church as the vineyard. But in a more inner vision of the symbols of this story, the vineyard is ourselves, provided with everything necessary for salvation through our baptism and the multiple and continuous mercy of God.

The tenants can be interpreted in two ways: the first are the teachers of the Jewish people, the scribes and the Pharisees. In our time, the tenants are the pastors of the Church, bishops, priests representing the bishops in the parishes, and all Christians who believe and act righteously.

All the preparation of the vineyard is done by the master; the tenants are left in charge of the vineyard AFTER he has been planted it. It happens the same in the Christian life: God is revealed to us through his mercy, and he gives us everything necessary for our salvation. It is up to each one of us to take care of the vineyard of the Lord and bring the fruits that were sown in us at the moment of the baptism.

Let us ask God, as we approach the "time of the fruits" of our lives, to recognize always the cornerstone on which is build our whole life and our eternal happiness.

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