October 4, 2026.
“Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?” They said to Him, “He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons .… “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.” (Mathew 21, 40-43)
“Do not tire of me Lord”. This should be our almost permanent prayer. Or at least frequent, as frequent as are our sins, our negligence, and our debilities. It proves admirable that the Lord has not tired of humanity, that he hasn’t destroyed it or left it to its own. However, this not only has not occurred, but he also sent his only son, Jesus Christ, to fix it, to show us the way, to show us the path that leads to happiness. Only God can love so. Only God can preserver in love this way, including when the loved one, man, shows so few signs of repentance.
This week it is a question of is asking the Lord not to give up on us, to give us new opportunities to convert, to repent, to get better, to confess.
At the same time, it is about not abusing the patience and goodness of God. To try to avoid all that bothers him, all sin. And to love him and thy neighbor with all our strength to compensate, some way, the hurt we and others have caused. We must go deeper in a subject that was very frequent in the spirituality of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century that of making amends. Love God because he deserves it. But love also to reduce what others are doing to offend Him and what we ourselves, at other times, have done to offend Him. As Abraham did when he tried to save Sodoma, let us be lawyers for the sinners, for ourselves, with our good works.
Intention: Repent and confess. Make very concrete and possible intentions that refer to the principle most frequent defects. Do good deeds to compensate bad acts.