Monday | June 03, 2024
Mark 12:10-11
Have you not read this Scripture passage: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes?
St. Charles Lwanga and Companions
EThe Cornerstone
After being challenged by the elders concerning the source of his authority, Jesus tells a parable about tenants in a vineyard. The vineyard owner dispatches various servants to the tenants to bring back some of the fruits of the vineyard as payment. Every messenger was beaten or killed until finally, the vineyard owner “had one other to send, a beloved son. He sent him to them last of all” (v. 6). This son, this heir, they also killed.
A cornerstone is, as its name implies, a stone at the corner of a building. It’s a core around which everything else takes shape. Jesus points to himself as the rejected stone who paradoxically becomes foundational, essential and of primary importance.
Jesus, beloved son, be the core around which every part of my life takes shape and finds meaning.
- Sr. Chris Koellhoffer, I.H.M.
2 Peter 1:2-7 • Psalm 91:1-2, 14-16 • Mark 12:1-12
