26th Sunday Insert
26th Sunday Insert
26th Sunday Insert
Beyond Words
Two sons were asked to work in the vineyard of their father. One said he would do so, but he
didn’t. The other said he wouldn’t, but he did. It was this second son who did what the father
wanted.
God, our Father, invites us all to work in the vineyard, preparing the world for the coming of
the kingdom. Some of us talk about the work that needs to be done, calling attention to the so-
cial ills that divide us: the poverty and hunger, the discrimination and oppression, the militarism
and war.
Others of us do something about these problems: challenging the systems that produce poverty
and hunger, struggling to overcome discrimination and oppression, agitating for peace and an
end to militarism.
The challenge of Jesus Christ is to look to others’ interests rather than to one’s own. It is to
look beyond one’s small world, which may be filled with satisfaction and fulfillment, to look out
into that world where people suffer and die. And it is to go beyond talk and become involved in
action for the transformation of the world.
Two sons were asked to work in the vineyard of their father. One of them did what the father
wanted.
Gerald Darring
Magdalen’s perfume
pots
she Campbell family, Jonathan & family, Sharon & family, Will, FMS, Cap. Corp.,
Patrick & Brittany, Broughman family, Fannie Crowder & family, VAL, Father
Ingram’s father & family, Karen’s mother, Cheryl Mobley & family, William
did and that Hudson, Robert, Walter, Danielle, Christopher, Barbara, Katherine, Nicholas,
Kaylin, Kasie, Mary Beth & family, Mary Ann Mahoney & family, Donna &
family, Ann Chancellor & family, Sheila & family, cancer patients & families,
military & families, Brandon, Plantation Villa residents, Don, Mrs. Carpenter, Mr.
& Mrs. Rooks, Katherine & family, Mr. Dunn, Mr. & Mrs. Barlow, Jane & family,
Scott & family, Diane & Peter, Michele & Gary, Lucy’s father & family, Bobbie,
Joan & family, Karl’s mother & family, June & family, Tina & family, Belinda &
only Christ family, OLM family, Kat, Delgratia & family, Mr. Gomez & family, Sara’s mother,
Dr. Lynch & family, Rob/Allie & family, Chuck & family, Frank & family, Liesa
& family, mother of Dr. Petros, Dr. Issa & family, Odessa, Anita’s mother &
knew family, Ruby, Ruby’s mother & family, Davies family, Katie & family, family of
Angie, Ann & family, Gretchen & family, Eileen, Scott & family, Robert, Flavia &
family, Tony’s family, Roy & Martha Wright, Roy, Alice Swygert, Alan, Nard,
and herself Tony, Glenda, Nelson, J. Bob, Munn, Vogt, Wolfe families, Russell & family, Ola,
Gene Wilson & family, Jane Brock & family, Janet Kramer & family, Elayne &
family, Winnie, Phil & family, Tony, Stan, Emily & family, Ruthie & Ed, Mr.
Bergin & family, Russell & family, Mrs. Sanseverino & family, CC Center,
veterans & families Jessie Emmett, Mark, Michael’s mother, Carrie, VAMC,
Rambo’s mother & family, Josephine Mary, Mary Anna, S. Paul, Tony, J. W.
laughing with Wilson & family, Jason & Kim, Josie, Kelly, Mickey’s family, Jon & Janet Cook &
family, Karen’s cousin, Mike Aguado & family, Carl & family, Dr. Lopez &
family, Dr. Vanapalli & family, Dr. Nair & family, Garrett & family, family of