Children’s Liturgy
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A
Gospel Reading: Matthew 21:33-43
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The Parable of the Tenants
33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. 35 “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. 36 Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. 37 Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. 38 “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ 39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.” 42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvellous in our eyes.’
43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
God our Father has entrusted the church of his Son into the hands of leaders who are expected to work for the growth of the kingdom of God through the church.
Holy Scripture teaches:
Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
Act 20:28
When leaders fail, they will be replaced, but the church will remain until God hands it over to his Son when he returns.
Activity
Write the names of these spiritual fruit on the tree:
- Justice
- Mercy
