27th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Bearing the Fruit that God is Looking For

Today we have parable #2 that Jesus directs towards the chief priests and the elders. It's setting is a vineyard, and as Jesus tells the parable we can't help but recall the first reading from this week, where the prophet Isaiah describes a very similar vineyard, which is meticulously cared for by its owner and yet bears not good grapes but wild grapes. God meticulously cared for Israel as well, and what was its fruit? The lack of faith of its religious authorities, such as the chief priests and elders to which Jesus directs this parable. And what about us in the New Israel? God has blessed us too and meticulously cared for his Church with its teachings and Sacraments. What is the fruit that we bear?