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The vine and the branches

I. I am the true vine, and you are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, bears much fruit, we read in the Gospel of the Mass. (John 15: 1-8). Christ is the true vine, connecting his life to the branches, is the life of grace that flows from Him and communicated to all members of his Body which is the Church. Without new blood that produce no fruit because they are dead, dry.

It makes us partakers of the very life of God! The man, at the time of baptism, is transformed into the very depths of his being, makes us children of God, brothers of Christ, members of His body, which is the church. This life is eternal, if not lose by mortal sin.

II. Every branch in me that bears no fruit he takes away, and every branch that bears fruit he prunes so that it bears more fruit. (John 15, 2). The Christian who breaks the channels through which you get grace, prayer and the sacraments, ends up dying at the hands of mortal sin, you die because you run out of life. And if the channels of grace we are expedited because a mountain of negligence, laziness, comfort, human respect, environmental influences, and other chores rush obstructs, then the life of the soul will languish until they eventually die.

The will of the Lord, however, is that we bear fruit and give in abundance. So pruning the branch for more fruit: we honestly tell the Lord that we are willing to let it boot everything in us is an obstacle to their action. The Lord cleanses us and purifies us differently. Sometimes allows failures, disease, defamation ... also left us the sacrament of Penance, to purify our frequent faults and sins.

III. From the life of union with God Apostolic wealth flows as an overabundance of the inner life. Are we giving the fruits that the Lord expected of us? Through our deal will our friends have come to God? Do we give the fruits of peace and joy? Take the hand of Mary, She is the short way by which we come to Jesus, that fills us with divine life.