"The prophets, the men of God who spoke to the people, who have not been heard, who have been discarded, will be his glory." "If each one of us does an examination of conscience, we will see how many times, how many times the prophets have been cast aside. How many times we have said to Jesus: ‘Go away’, how many times we wanted to save ourselves, how many times we thought we were the just ones".

Vatican City (AsiaNews) - " The path of our redemption is a path of many failures. Even that last one, that of the cross, is one of scandal. But it is precisely there where love conquers "and becomes the discarded stone becomes a foundation, said Pope Francis  today during mass celebrated this morning in Casa Santa Marta, commenting on the parable of the vineyard tenants who kill whomever the master sent.

The Pope observed that the parable seemed to tell the story of “the failure of God’s dream." There is a master who builds a beautiful vineyard and there are workers who kill his envoys. But it is precisely from those deaths that everything comes to life". The prophets, the men of God who spoke to the people, who have not been heard, who have been discarded, will be his glory,” he said. “The Son, the last one sent, who Himself has been discarded, judged, unheard and killed, has become the cornerstone. This history, that begins with a dream of love, and that seems to be a story of love, but then seems to end in a story of failure, ends with the great love of God who brings forth salvation from what is discarded; from His discarded Son, He saves us all".

This is where the logic of failure "is overturned". Jesus reminds the leaders of the people, quoting Scripture: "The stone which the builders discarded has become the cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes. " And it is "good to read in the Bible" even of " God lamentations," the Father who "cries" when man  "does not obey God, because he wants to become a god" himself.

"The path of our redemption is a path of many failures. Even that last one, that of the cross, is one of scandal. But it is precisely there where love conquers. And that story that begins with a dream of love and continues with a history of failure, ends with the victory of love: the cross of Jesus. We must not forget this road is a hard road. Even ours! If each one of us does an examination of conscience, we will see how many times, how many times the prophets have been cast aside. How many times we have said to Jesus: ‘Go away’, how many times we wanted to save ourselves, how many times we thought we were the just ones".

"It would do us good to remember - said Francis – to remember  this love story that seems failed, but in the end wins. This is the story of the history of our lives, of that seed of the love that God has planted in us and how it has gone, and to do the same that Jesus did in our name: He humbled Himself. "

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