27th Sunday of Ordinary Time

1I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my paternal cousin, about his vineyard. A vineyard was made for my beloved, at the horn in the son of oil. 2And he fenced it in, and he picked the stones out of it, and he planted it with the best vines, and he built a tower in the middle of it, and he set up a winepress within it. And he expected it to produce grapes, but it produced wild vines. 3Now then, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah: judge between me and my vineyard. 4What more should I have done for my vineyard that I did not do for it? Should I not have expected it to produce grapes, though it produced wild vines? 5And now, I will reveal to you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its fence, and it will be plundered. I will pull down its wall, and it will be trampled. 6And I will make it desolate. It will not be pruned, and it will not be dug. And briers and thorns will rise up. And I will command the clouds not to rain upon it. 7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel. And the man of Judah is his delightful seedling. And I expected that he would do judgment, and behold iniquity, and that he would do justice, and behold an outcry.

9You have transferred a vineyard from Egypt. You have cast out the Gentiles, and planted it.

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12It extended its new branches even to the sea, and its new seedlings even to the river.

13So then, why have you destroyed its walls, so that all those who pass by the way gather its grapes?

14The wild boar of the forest has trampled it, and a single wild beast has laid waste to it.

15Turn back, O God of hosts. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard;

16and complete what your right hand has planted, and look upon the son of man, whom you have confirmed for yourself.

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19For we do not depart from you, and you will revive us. And we will invoke your name.

20O Lord, God of hosts, convert us. And reveal your face, and we will be saved.

6Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. 7And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 8Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these. 9All the things that you have learned and accepted and heard and seen in me, do these. And so shall the God of peace be with you.

33Listen to another parable. There was a man, the father of a family, who planted a vineyard, and surrounded it with a hedge, and dug a press in it, and built a tower. And he loaned it out to farmers, and he set out to sojourn abroad. 34Then, when the time of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, so that they might receive its fruits. 35And the farmers apprehended his servants; they struck one, and killed another, and stoned yet another. 36Again, he sent other servants, more than before; and they treated them similarly. 37Then, at the very end, he sent his son to them, saying: ‘They will revere my son.’ 38But the farmers, seeing the son, said among themselves: ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and then we will have his inheritance.’ 39And apprehending him, they cast him outside the vineyard, and they killed him. 40Therefore, when the lord of the vineyard arrives, what will he do to those farmers?” 41They said to him, “He will bring those evil men to an evil end, and he will loan out his vineyard to other farmers, who shall repay to him the fruit in its time.” 42Jesus said to them: “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders have rejected has become the cornerstone. By the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes?’ 43Therefore, I say to you, that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and it shall be given to a people who shall produce its fruits.