Gospel: Matthew 21:33-43
Listen to another example: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard.
He put a fence around it, dug a hole for the wine press, built a watchtower,
leased the vineyard to tenants, and then, went to a distant country.
When harvest time came, the landowner sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the harvest.

Gospel: Luke 4:38-44
Leaving the synagogue, Jesus went to the house of Simon. His mother-in law was suffering from high fever, and they asked him to do something for her. Bending over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately, she got up and waited on them.
At sunset, people suffering from many kinds of sickness were brought to Jesus. Laying his hands on each one, he healed them. Demons were driven out, howling as they departed from their victims, “You are the Son of God!” He rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, for they knew he was the Messiah.

Gospel: Matthew 23:1-12
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees have sat down on the chair of Moses.
So you shall do and observe all they say; but do not do as they do, for they do not do what they say.
They tie up heavy burdens and load them on the shoulders of the people, but they do not even lift a finger to move them.
They do everything in order to be seen by people: they wear very wide bands of the law around their foreheads, and robes with large tassels.

Gospel: Luke 10:17-24
The seventy-two disciples returned full of joy. They said,
“Lord, even the demons obeyed us when we called on your name.”
Then Jesus replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
You see, I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and

Gospel: Matthew 18:1-5, 10
At that time, the disciples came to Jesus and asked him,
“Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Then Jesus called a little child,
set the child in the midst of the disciples, and said,
“I assure you, that, unless you change, and become like little children,

Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40
When the Pharisees heard how Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together.
One of them, a lawyer, questioned him to test him, “Teacher, which commandment of the law is the greatest?”
Jesus answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
This is the first and the most important of the commandments. The second is like it:

Gospel: Luke 10:1-12
After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two other disciples, and sent them,
two by two, ahead of him, to every town and place, where he himself was to go.
And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
So you must ask the Lord of the harvest to send workers to his harvest.

Gospel: Luke 4:31-37
Jesus went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee, and began teaching the people at the Sabbath meetings. They were astonished at the way he taught them,
for his word was spoken with authority.
In the synagogue, there was a man possessed by an evil spirit, who shouted in a loud voice, “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us? I recognize you: you are the Holy One of God.”

Gospel: Matthew 22:1-14
Jesus continued speaking to them in parables: “This story throws light on the kingdom of heaven:
A king gave a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to call the invited guests to the banquet,
but the guests refused to come. Again, he sent other servants, instructing them to say to the invited guests,
‘I have prepared a banquet, slaughtered my fattened calves and other animals, and now, everything is ready.

Gospel: Matthew 20:1-16
This story throws light on the kingdom of heaven: A landowner went out early in the morning, to hire workers for his vineyard.
He agreed to pay each worker the usual daily wage, and sent them to his vineyard.
He went out again, at about nine in the morning, and, seeing others idle in the town square, he said to them,
‘You also, go to my vineyard, and I will pay you what is just.’ So they went.