Episode 149: The Twenty Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

Send us Fan Mail The Gospel today gives us one of Jesus’ simplest parables, and one of His most piercing. A father asks his two sons to go and work in the vineyard. One says “no,” but later goes. The other says “yes,” but never shows up. Jesus then turns to the chief priests and elders and says, in essence: Your words say “yes,” but your lives say “no.” Meanwhile, the tax collectors and prostitutes, those who once said “no” to God, are now entering the Kingdom because their lives have begun t...