Sunday, Sept. 20, the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Isaiah 55:6-9; Psalm 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18; Philippians 1:20c-24, 27a; Matthew 20:1-16a. This is one of those parables that challenges ...

In my memories of Kazuhiko Yoshida¹, I had to repeatedly emphasize that I was "not good at music," and similarly, while ...

There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey. Since ordination, I have kept the ...

For the third consecutive weekend, we focus on the vineyard. We first saw the landowner pay those who worked for one hour the same wage as those who worked 12; then the landowner who asked his two ...

The theme of the vineyard is also at the center of to Sunday’s Gospel reading (Mt 21:33–43), which presents us with a parable in which we find a landowner, tenants, and a vineyard to be cultivated. We ...

Brothers and sisters, today in the Liturgy of the Word, we have heard Isaiah’s merciful call, St. Paul’s testimony of life, and the parable of the workers in the vineyard spoken by the Lord Jesus ...

What a story for Jesus to tell. Why? Because it probably strikes most of us in our understanding of “just.” Why does it strike us when we see someone else receive some real benefit we didn't get just ...

(OSV News) — Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen “knew Jesus Christ, our Lord” and understood that “the Gospel always sends us outward” to share God’s love with the world, said the homilist at Mass marking the ...

(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 09.20.2026).- At noon on Sunday, September 20, the Holy Father appeared at the window of the papal apartment overlooking St. Peter’s Square and recited the Angelus with ...

(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given Sunday, Sept. 20, at St. Peter’s Square. In the Gospel, Jesus’ parables describe the newness of what God has in ...

Pope Leo XIV recalled this Sunday that the logic of God’s mercy surpasses human calculations and called on Christians to abandon envy, rivalries, and the presumption of viewing grace as a deserved ...