GSCCC Magazine WinterSpring 2. Girl Scouts of the Colonial Coast. GSCCC Magazine WinterSpring 2. Published on Dec 2. News and Program Information from Girl Scouts of the Colonial Coast. Religious Patch Placement' title='Religious Patch Placement' />Kayala 2. Sunday A Workers of the Vineyard Stewardship. Story Starters From Fr. Tony Kadavils Collection. Gospel text Matthew 2. Religious Patch Placement' title='Religious Patch Placement' />Wild Vines in the Lords Vineyard In his book From Scandal to Hope, Fr. Benedict Groeschel EWTN, examines the roots of the clergy sex abuse scandal. He details how disloyalty spread through seminaries, universities, chanceries and parishes. The most notorious case was that of Fr. Paul Shanley who helped found the North American Man Boy Love Association in 1. He lectured in seminaries, once with a bishop in attendance, maintaining that homosexuality is a gift of God and should be celebrated, and that there was no sexual activity that could cause psychic damage not even incest or bestiality. No wonder Fr. Charles Curran had little trouble getting seventy seven theologians to sign a protest against Humanae Vitae, an encyclical which reaffirmed marital chastity A few years later the Catholic Theological Society CTS, published Human Sexuality New Directions in American Catholic Thought, a study which accepted cohabitation, adultery and homosexuality. Brief definitions of obscure words starting with the letter M. Parables on the Vineyard in Mt a 25th Sunday Mt 20116 Hired laborers in the vineyard Willingness to work, find work, invest yourself and the Lord rewards it. Militaria Mart features a reputable dealer directory and resource site for collectors of militaria. The mission is to protect the unprotected children, elderly, and people with disabilities from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Ati Rf Wireless Remote Receiver on this page. Now, however, all these chickens have come home to roost. We are paying the price in lawsuits, public humiliation and loss of credibility. The media gave us a glimpse of the enormous destruction in the Lords vineyard done by those wicked tenants. They did so with great relish because the scandals discredit a teaching authority they, by and large, find annoying. But this attention by the media has had consequences the media probably did not intend. It has alerted Catholics to the widespread pillaging of the vineyard, which ultimately means the damnation of souls. Fr. Groeschel asks, Does all this scandal shake your faith in the Church He answers, I hope so, because ultimately your faith should not be in the Church. Ultimately your faith is in Jesus Christ. It is because of him that we accept and support the Church. We believe in and belong to the Church because Christ established it on his apostles. We see in todays Gospel that the owner of the vineyard is God. He will care for his Church, not by committees or document, but by raising up saints who will properly tend the vineyard. Rejected Stone Becoming the Cornerstone A girl named Kristi Yamaguchi was born to a young couple whose parents had emigrated to the U. Religious Patch Placement' title='Religious Patch Placement' />S. Japan in the early twentieth century. Unfortunately, one of her feet was twisted. Her parents tried to heal her by means of physical therapy. To strengthen her legs further they enrolled her in an ice skating class. Kristi had to get up at four a. This helped her to develop into a world class figure skater. Believe it or not, in 1. Kristi won the gold medal for the United States in womens figure skating at the XVI Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, 1. Kristi thus became one of the several examples of the stone rejected by the builders becoming a cornerstone of the U. S. Womens Olympic team. Kristi is very passionate about making a positive difference in the lives of children. In 1. 99. 6, Kristi established the Always Dream Foundation whose mission is to encourage, support and embrace the hopes and dreams of children. In todays gospel, after telling the parable of the wicked tenants, Jesus prophesies that, rejected by the Jewish nation, he will become the cornerstone of the Kingdom of God. Parables on the Vineyard in Mt a 2. Sunday Mt 2. 01 1. Hired laborers in the vineyard Willingness to work, find work, invest yourself and the Lord rewards it regardless of the length of time or the period in ones life. He is merciful to the efforts people make to make a living. Sunday Mt 2. 12. Now its the family. You can only be requested and not forced. As the children grow up, they have their freedom, opinions and choices in life. God respects that. We are not judged by some ideologies or philosophies we may take fancy upon, but by our real actions. Our final choices. Sunday Mt 2. 13. Tenants of the vineyard and our Stewardship As parents entrust their property or business to their children, so God entrusts talents, faith, Church, the world, care of natureenvironment into human hands. How we look after and nurture our faith, our commitment to our families, to our elected office in the civil society are all become the foci of this stewardship. Tony Kayala, c. Michel De. Verteuil General Comments. Todays passage is complex. Several different strands have been woven into it, all with their own main characters, their own movement and their own atmosphere. In our meditation we need to look at each strand individually and then, if we are so inclined, to see a link between them. It is first of all the story of the landowner, deeply grieved at the conduct of his tenants. His story is in four stages he cares lovingly for the vineyard verse 3. The landowner represents us when we give our all as parents, teachers, church or other community leaders. He also represents the founders of religious orders, social movements or political parties. A time comes when we must all let go of our authority go abroad and entrust to others the people or causes we have served. The parable reminds us of the shock we experience when we learn that our trust has been betrayed. The landowners final response is told in a very significant way. Jesus invites his audience to finish the story for him, agrees with their verdict implicitly and so also implicitly invites us to agree with them both. The landowners response therefore is the model of what our spiritual tradition has called righteous anger. The landowner also represents God so that the parable invites us to enter into Gods feelings when he sees how we human beings treat his precious sons and daughters and his beautiful nature. Activation Code For Nokia Lumia 900. As always the God of the Bible Old and New Testaments is not calm and detached as a false spirituality has depicted him and encouraged us to imitate. Righteous anger is a virtue we often fail to practice, especially in the light of the great crimes of our time world poverty, racism and sexism, the sexual abuse of minors. Jesus is the person in our lives who invites us to repent of our false detachment and enter into the anger of God. The parable is also the story of the tenants and here again we are invited to feel with them. We must however understand their frame of mind correctly. In many cultures today tenants are poor people who are harshly treated by their landowners the historical Jesus would have been on their side. The tenants in the parable are quite different. In the original context as verse 4. Today they represent us to the extent that we belong to an oppressor group individuals and civilizations and lose the sense of being stewards of all we possess. In the parable the tenants become angry when they are reminded that the vineyard has been leased to them and they must be accountable for what they have done with it. Their anger grows ever more violent vs. Harry Potter Order Phoenix Game Crack File here. As the story develops, the root of their anger is revealed they want to own the vineyard vs. The parable then gives us the key to understanding abuse of authority in its many forms. Its root is always that we feel our higher status being threatened in some way and lash out against the people or events we perceive as threats one of our children rebels or befriends someone we dont approve of sickness or old age forces us to change our lifestyle a dear friend betrays our trust a project fails which we had put a lot into.