I am the vine, you are the branches

A Time of Pruning. We are commanded today in the Gospel to bear much fruit as His disciples so that our lives might give glory to God. The followers of Jesus are known by their fruits, by their powerful witness to the Risen Lord working in their lives.

But often, we can be choked by busyness, by self-centeredness, by continual new demands on time and energy. We can be proud and arrogant, forgetting that “a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine.”