Homily on 4-28-24

Have you ever looked at a living grape vine?  It's a huge mess!  It's a tangled web of vines, branches, and fruit all wrapped around a pole, wire, log, or whatever it can find!  But that's us, isn't it?  Our lives are also a tangled mess, and that's OK.  Our relationships get a little distorted sometimes, and our connections to each other are rarely ever cut and dry.  But nonetheless, the branches stay attached to the vine, because without it they would die.  Such is also true of our own lives.  Christ illustrates us as branches in today's Gospel, branches that bear much fruit, but only when they stay attached to him, the vine.  How's your connection to the Vine this week?