{"id":13487,"date":"2026-09-13T17:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/?p=13487"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:56:41","slug":"sunday-xxvi-labor-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/en\/2026\/09\/13\/sunday-xxvi-labor-is-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday XXVI: Labor is love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>September 27, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cA man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, \u2018Son, go, work today in my vineyard.\u2019\u00a0 He answered and said, \u2018I will not,\u2019 but afterward he regretted it and went. Then he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, \u2018I <em>go,<\/em> sir,\u2019 but he did not go.\u00a0 Which of the two did the will of <em>his<\/em> father?\u201d They said to Him, \u201cThe first\u201d.\u00a0 (Mathew 21, 28-31)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This week\u2019s Gospel puts forth two different models each one with something positive.\u00a0 It invites us not to imitate either one but to add the good of both. That is to say, it proposes that we try to give the perfect answer: do the will of God without protest, without complaining.\u00a0 Because there are people who are easy to get along with but never do anything and there are others who work hard but their way of being makes them impossible to get along with.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t we become people who are good workers and easy to get along with, who do what has to be done without a big deal and without being grouchy all the time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Each one of us during the day finds the \u201cvoice\u201d of the Lord that tells us which path to follow. This voice speaks through our conscience, the people around us or, simply through our obligations. It is necessary to listen to the voice of God and obey, trying to do so with the most joy possible, reducing to the minimum protests and complaints. Because labor is love and God has a right to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Lord is waiting for a third son to send him to work his vineyard and who does so without complaining, even saying thank you for the opportunity to do it. Or perhaps it should be said that He is awaiting a daughter? Perhaps, yes, because that perfect \u201cthird child\u201d was a woman, it was the Virgin Mary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Intention<\/u>: <\/strong>I am going to do things without protest, without holding it against those who haven\u2019t, without feeling superior. I am going to do them quickly without, waiting until tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 27, 2026. \u201cA man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, \u2018Son, go, work today in my vineyard.\u2019\u00a0 He answered and said, \u2018I will not,\u2019 but afterward he regretted it and went. Then he came<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/en\/2026\/09\/13\/sunday-xxvi-labor-is-love\/\">Leer m\u00e1s \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13488,"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487\/revisions\/13488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}