Jesus is Always With Us

Image via WikipediaThis is the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time and the readings are as follows:
Isaiah 5:1-7
Philippians 4:6-9
Matthew 21:33-43

The following reflection is taken from the bulletin of the Church Of The Risen Christ:

What kind of reception do you think Jesus would get if he were to return today in the same manner which he came two millennia ago? Would it be different? In the era of the Old Testament, prophets were generally rejected or ignored. Jesus tells us in today's Gospel they were even treated like slaves who were sent out by the property owner to collect rent and were treated shamefully.

Even when the property owner sent his own son thinking that surely he would be respected the son was killed instead. Even before Jesus was born, the Holy family was turned away at the inn. Was there really “no room for them at the inn”? Was it really so easy to turn away a traveller and his pregnant wife in the middle of the night? Or were they just not welcome?

It is simple enough to see who the property owner's son represents. The truth is Jesus is ever present among us especially with the poverty stricken, the despised and in the unborn child being prepared unknowingly for an abortion. Is God the Father still saying “Surely they will respect my Son.”