Mar 5 • General discussion
PURIFICATION FROM THE SPIRIT OF JEALOUSY (Mt 21:33-43,45)
Jesus tells us the parable of the murderous vineyard workers: a landowner plants a vineyard with love and care, entrusts it to farmers, and when he sends his servants to harvest the fruit, he encounters not gratitude, but violence and rejection. Those vineyard workers, blinded by jealousy and the desire to possess what is not theirs, go so far as to kill the heir, thinking they can seize the inheritance. Jesus concludes with the words of the Psalm: "The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone," revealing himself as that Son rejected but exalted by God. This parable, dear friends, is not only a rebuke to the leaders of the people of Israel, but a profound invitation to search our hearts. Jealousy, like a weed in the Lord's vineyard, insidiously insinuates itself into our Christian communities. How often, annoyed by a brother who shines with gifts different from our own, do we seek "elegant" ways to marginalize him, to "get rid of him"? Hostility begins as a small seed - an envious thought, a cutting word, a destructive criticism - and quickly grows into hatred, just as the vineyard workers go from beating their servants to killing their son.
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PURIFICATION FROM THE SPIRIT OF JEALOUSY (Mt 21:33-43,45)
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