Κατηγορία

Ξένες γλώσσες

‘For when the Lord of the Vineyard Comes, what will he do to those Laborers? (Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian)

Κατηγορίες: In English

Christ used the image of the vineyard rather than that of any other tree or plant, because he was preparing the faithful to understand that wine, the fruit of the vine, would be given at the Last Supper, so that it would be exactly the same as His blood and so that the faithful would be joined together over the centuries with Him and among themselves. They would be blood relatives, united in His precious and all-pure blood. In today’s Gospel, Christ foretells His voluntary Passion, and prophecies His Crucifixion, which will be the act of committing the vineyard, that is His Church, into the hands of people who believe in Him and who act as living witnesses to the faith, ...

Περισσότερα