{"id":163548,"date":"2025-03-27T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=163548"},"modified":"2025-03-20T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T02:30:09","slug":"lent-2025-day-23-you-too-go-into-my-vineyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/lent-2025-day-23-you-too-go-into-my-vineyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent 2025 &#8211; Day 23 &#8211; You, Too, Go into my Vineyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"163548\" class=\"elementor elementor-163548\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cbf6437 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cbf6437\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c0ffd5e elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"c0ffd5e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/6rYXgix6ay7oWdDCwro8K4?utm_source=generator\" style=\"border-radius:12px\"  width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bee7262 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bee7262\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Day 23<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>You, Too, Go into My Vineyard!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou go, too.\u201d The call is a concern not only of pastors, clergy, and men and women religious. The call is addressed to everyone: lay people as well are personally called by the Lord, from whom they receive a mission on behalf of the Church and the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 St. John Paul II, Christifideles Laici, 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deep within every human heart burns a desire for lasting purpose, for a truly meaningful life. In some hearts, this desire burns quietly, like a small ember waiting under thick layers of cold ash. People in that condition may try to fill their lives with earthly comforts and achievements, thinking that those things will be enough to satisfy them. They try to ignore or quench the deeper yearning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other hearts the desire flames out violently, impatiently belittling anything that doesn\u2019t directly contribute to whatever particular cause such individuals have dedicated themselves to. In this case, life can lose its balance and harmony, and people can turn even legitimate and necessary human works (i.e., curing cancer, ending world hunger) into a kind of idol. This can even lead to violence and destruction when the adopted cause or chosen means to promote it contradicts human dignity. Killing people in order to save an endangered animal or plant species, for example, is dangerously off-kilter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Source of Meaning<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neither earthly comforts and achievements nor ideological idols can fulfill the longings of the human heart. Our hearts are made for God and his kingdom, for everlasting life. Nothing on this side of eternity can truly satisfy them. Here we can only begin to experience the fullness of life to which God is leading us, but even that beginning is far superior to anything the secular world can give us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God wants us to find and follow that path of true meaning. He wants us to experience the growing fullness of life that comes with following that path. In fact, Jesus summed up his life\u2019s mission in those terms: \u201cI came that they might have life, and have it more abundantly\u201d (John 10:10).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being evangelized by the Church gives us access to this path. It actually sets us on \u201cthe road that leads to life\u201d (Matthew 7:14) by uniting us to the source of life himself \u2014 Jesus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through baptism we become members of this Church that is Christ still present in the world, renewing and redeeming the human family from within. Our spiritual DNA is enhanced by baptism, so that in a sense every Christian becomes another Christ. As St. Cyprian put it way back in the third century: \u201cChristianus alter Christus\u201d \u2014 \u201cEvery Christian is another Christ.\u201d The other sacraments nourish that divine life of Christ in each baptized person, as does the instruction and guidance that each receives from more mature members of the Church \u2014 parents, teachers, priests, and so on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Healthy Plants Bear Fruit<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The healthy growth of this divine life of grace tends irresistibly to produce fruit. Healthy Christians naturally share with others the gifts of grace they have received. As they grow to spiritual maturity, they produce spiritual fruit analogous to how mature plants produce material fruit. Jesus used this image in Mark 4:26\u201329 to describe the growth of his kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A healthy seed grows and bears fruit \u2014 that\u2019s what it does. The seed of grace, according to the Lord, is no different. The urge to help others live life to the fullest, the desire to help them discover the liberating truths of the gospel and experience the revitalizing mercy and love of Jesus Christ, surges up from within every mature Christian. It\u2019s part of who we are. It\u2019s a spiritual vital sign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The classic expressions of this yearning to spread the love we have been given are found strewn throughout the New Testament writings of St. Paul, the quintessential missionary. \u201cFor the love of Christ impels us,\u201d he wrote to the Christians in Corinth (2 Corinthians 5:14). In a previous letter, he had explained his own sense of mission with another phrase that has been taken up by every Christian generation since: \u201cIf I preach the gospel, this is no reason for me to boast, for an obligation has been imposed on me, and woe to me if I do not preach it!\u201d (1 Corinthians 9:16).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>People versus Plants<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, human beings are different than plants. Plants grow and bear fruit unconsciously. In the spiritual life, however, growth and fruitfulness are linked to our free cooperation, to our decision to listen and obey as \u201cthe voice of Lord clearly resounds in the depths\u201d of our souls, to quote St. John Paul II again. As baptized Christians we are evangelizers in our very nature, but we are capable of denying that nature, of starving it or hiding it or otherwise acting against it. When we do so, we impede the Church\u2019s mission, we fail in our call to love, and we deviate from the path of meaning that alone will satisfy the deepest longings of our heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus\u2019s description of this missionary aspect of our Christian identity illustrates both these dimensions \u2014 that we are evangelizers by nature ever since our baptism, but that we can act against that nature. During his Sermon on the Mount, for example, he explained:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.\u201d (Matthew 5:13\u201316)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christ\u2019s followers are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Our identity involves bringing flavor and illumination to a world deadened and darkened by sin. As St. John Paul II said:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God calls me and sends me forth as a laborer in his vineyard. He calls me and sends me forth to work for the coming of his Kingdom in history. This personal vocation and mission defines the dignity and the responsibility of each member of the lay faithful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet it is possible for us to become insipid salt or obscured light. As members of the Church, we are sharers in her mission, but we have to decide to live in accordance with that identity, to let our light shine before others and thus fulfill the commandment of love. That\u2019s what we are created to do, that\u2019s what we are called to do, that\u2019s what the world needs us to do, and that\u2019s what will satisfy our existential thirst for lasting fulfillment \u2014 for making a truly meaningful contribution to history. When the Lord of the vineyard looks at you and says, \u201cYou too go into my vineyard\u201d (Matthew 20:4), he says it with a warm, eager, loving smile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Questions for Personal Reflection or Group Discussion<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What idea in this reflection struck you most and why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When have you experienced most acutely the thirst for meaning and purpose God has placed in the depths of your soul? What did you do about it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How deeply do you identify with this aspect of being a follower of Christ? How does your condition of being a missionary, being salt and light for the world, make you feel? Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Becoming aware of this missionary dimension can be overwhelming. We don\u2019t always feel up to such a high calling. We don\u2019t always feel properly equipped, trained, gifted, or talented. And yet the fact remains that we all share \u201cthe common vocation of all Christ\u2019s disciples, a vocation to holiness and to the mission of evangelizing the world\u201d (CCC, 1533). In the coming days we will explore the many different ways that mission can be lived out, which can help it be less overwhelming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But for today, how will you consciously express this core aspect of your deepest identity and deepest source of meaning?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will visit my parish church and take a few moments to reflect on all the artwork and decoration inside of it, asking myself what those images say to me about my identity as a Christian missionary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will read a description of the life of my favorite saint, paying special attention to how that person lived out the missionary dimension of being a Christian.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will bring up my faith in a conversation where it wouldn\u2019t usually come up, even if indirectly, and see how God uses that.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Write your own resolution) I will<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Concluding Prayer<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O God, you have willed that your Church<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be the sacrament of salvation for all nations,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so that Christ\u2019s saving work may continue to the end of the ages;<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stir up, we pray, the hearts of your faithful <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and grant that they may feel a more urgent call <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to work for the salvation of every creature, so that from all the peoples on earth one family and one people of your own may arise and increase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one God, for ever and ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 Roman Missal, Collect for the Mass for the Evangelization of Peoples<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 23 You, Too, Go into My Vineyard! \u201cYou go, too.\u201d The call is a concern not only of pastors, clergy, and men and women religious. 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