{"id":18751,"date":"2026-09-24T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/behold.mt\/?post_type=talba-bil-kelma&#038;p=18751"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:55:08","slug":"tax-collectors-make-their-way-into-the-kingdom-of-god-before-you","status":"publish","type":"talba-bil-kelma","link":"https:\/\/behold.mt\/en\/talba-bil-kelma\/tax-collectors-make-their-way-into-the-kingdom-of-god-before-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax collectors make their way into the kingdom of God before you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Twenty-Sixth Sunda y in Ordinary Time &#8211; Year A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Collect<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O God, who manifest your almighty power above all by pardoning and showing mercy, bestow, we pray, your grace abundantly upon us and make those hastening to attain your promises heirs to the treasures of heaven. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p>\n<cite>Amen.\u00a0<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<style id=\"kt-blocks_bea0fe-57\">.kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57 .kt-accordion-panel-inner {border-width:0px 0px 0px 0px;}.kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57 .wp-block-kadence-pane .kt-accordion-header-wrap .kt-blocks-accordion-header {color:#555555;background:#f2f2f2;border-color:#555555 #555555 #555555 #555555;font-size:18px;line-height:24px;border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;border-width:0px 0px 0px 0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:14px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:14px;}.kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57 .kt-blocks-accordion-header .kt-btn-svg-icon svg {width:18px;height:18px;}.kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basiccircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclosecircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrowcircle ) .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:after, .kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57:not( 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{background:#ffffff;}.kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger {background:#ffffff;}.kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:after, .kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:before {background:#444444;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-accordion alignnone\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-wrap kt-accordion-wrap kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57 kt-accordion-has-19-panes kt-active-pane-5 kt-accordion-block kt-pane-header-alignment-left kt-accodion-icon-style-basic kt-accodion-icon-side-right\" style=\"max-width:none\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-inner-wrap\" data-allow-multiple-open=\"true\" data-start-open=\"5\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-14 kt-pane_77a649-73\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>First Reading<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>When the sinner renounces sin, he deserves to live.<\/em><\/strong><br>Ezek 18:25-28<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A reading from the book of Ezekiel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows: \u2018You object, \u201cWhat the Lord does is unjust.\u201d Listen, you House of Israel: is what I do unjust? Is it not what you do that is unjust? When the upright man renounces his integrity to commit sin and dies because of this, he dies because of the evil that he himself has committed. When the sinner renounces sin to become law-abiding and honest, he deserves to live. He has chosen to renounce all his previous sins; he shall certainly live; he shall not die.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Word of the Lord.<\/strong><br>\u211f. Thanks be to God.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-15 kt-pane_b40407-96\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>Responsorial Psalm<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Psalm 24 (25):4-9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u211f.: Remember your mercy, Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lord, make me know your ways.<br>\u00a0\u00a0Lord, teach me your paths.<br>Make me walk in your truth, and teach me:<br>\u00a0\u00a0for you are God my saviour. \u211f.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember your mercy, Lord,<br>\u00a0\u00a0and the love you have shown from of old.<br>Do not remember the sins of my youth.<br>\u00a0\u00a0In your love remember me,<br>\u00a0\u00a0because of your goodness, O Lord. \u211f.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lord is good and upright.<br>\u00a0\u00a0He shows the path to those who stray,<br>He guides the humble in the right path,<br>\u00a0\u00a0He teaches his way to the poor. \u211f.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-19 kt-pane_7b033e-e5\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>Second Reading<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>In your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus.<\/em><\/strong><br>Phil 2:1-11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Philippians<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If our life in Christ means anything to you, if love can persuade at all, or the Spirit that we have in common, or any tenderness and sympathy, then be united in your convictions and united in your love, with a common purpose and a common mind. That is the one thing which would make me completely happy. There must be no competition among you, no conceit; but everybody is to be self-effacing. Always consider the other person to be better than yourself, so that nobody thinks of his own interests first but everybody thinks of other people\u2019s interests instead. In your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His state was divine,<br>yet he did not cling<br>to his equality with God<br>but emptied himself<br>to assume the condition of a slave,<br>and became as men are;<br>and being as all men are,<br>he was humbler yet,<br>even to accepting death,<br>death on a cross.<br>But God raised him high<br>and gave him the name<br>which is above all other names<br>so that all beings in the heavens,<br>on earth and in the underworld,<br>should bend the knee at the name of Jesus<br>and that every tongue should acclaim<br>Jesus Christ as Lord,<br>to the glory of God the Father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Word of the Lord.<\/strong><br>\u211f. Thanks be to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gospel Acclamation<\/strong><br>Jn 10:27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alleluia. \u211f. Alleluia.<br>My sheep hear my voice,<br>and I know them, and they follow me.<br>\u211f. Alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-18 kt-pane_d08bb5-ce\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>Gospel<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Tax collectors are making their way into the kingdom of God before you.<\/em><\/strong><br>Mt 21:28-32<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A reading from the holy gospel according to Matthew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people, \u2018What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He went and said to the first, \u201cMy boy, you go and work in the vineyard today.\u201d He answered, \u201cI will not go,\u201d but afterwards thought better of it and went. The man then went and said the same thing to the second who answered, \u201cCertainly, sir,\u201d but did not go. Which of the two did the father\u2019s will?\u2019 \u2018The first\u2019 they said. Jesus said to them, \u2018I tell you solemnly, tax collectors and prostitutes are making their way into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you, a pattern of true righteousness, but you did not believe him, and yet the tax collectors and prostitutes did. Even after seeing that, you refused to think better of it and believe in him.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Gospel of the Lord.<\/strong><br>\u211f. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.<br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#fad899\"><strong>Reflection<\/strong><br><br>When reading this Gospel, I find consolation in the elder son because my first response tends to be \u201cNo!\u201d\u2014even if, after many complaints, I eventually change my mind and do what is asked of me. And on those occasions when I say \u201cYes,\u201d let\u2019s just say that I may well end up forgetting about it afterwards. I imagine that we all find ourselves in these situations\u2014otherwise we won\u2019t live to our reputation as Maltese! But that does not work out as an excuse to justify ourselves!<br><br>In the meantime, the Gospel is not primarily about which son is best, but rather about the final word of Jesus when he confronts the Pharisees over their lack of faith in the possibility that God is still speaking and still communicating his Word, even through somewhat eccentric people such as John the Baptist. And because they remain unrepentant and do not convert, they remain stuck in their own way of thinking, unlike those who were humbler and more down-to-earth, recognising their sin and repenting. Jesus specifically mentions tax collectors and prostitutes: two categories of people, one male and the other female, who, by the very nature of their occupation or work, were regarded as sinners.<br><br>The First Reading shows us the seriousness of this contrast when it makes clear that a good person can never reach a point at which they can reassure themselves that they have accumulated enough points on their Loyalty Card and may therefore relax. At the same time, in the case of the sinful person who converts, God in his mercy chooses not to look at the past but delights in the right path that has opened up, so that the sinner may become a saint.<br><br>Hence, as we saw in last Sunday\u2019s Liturgy of the Word, the secret once again lies in the need for our thinking and our way of living not to remain governed by the fashions and ways of the world, but to rise upwards so that, as St Paul says to the Philippians in the Second Reading, we have the same mind of Christ Jesus. And what\u2019s the way of thinking of Christ Jesus?<br><br> Paul lists several aspects of Jesus\u2019 way of thinking. First, Paul makes it clear that what a person experiences in their relationship with Jesus\u2014the encouragement, the comfort of love\u2014is not simply personal gain or some kind of promotion that makes them holier than others. It is also a gift for the community, leading to the strengthening of fellowship in the Spirit, to compassion and mercy, to being of one mind without rivalry or boasting, so that they may be one in soul and united in mind in Christ.<br><br>Then Paul continues by explicitly describing the mind of Christ Jesus and what he did for us as a model of how we ought to think and act. He places before us the whole mystery of Christ who, although being God, fulfilled the Father\u2019s Word and not only did he not disdain becoming one of us, but obediently embraced death, even death on a cross, as the natural consequence of taking upon himself the guilt of our sins.<br><br>Indeed, as Paul explains, Christ\u2019s glorification followed, reaching its fulfilment at the end of time. Yet this glorification itself is also a gift for us because, if we learn to think and live with the humility with which Jesus lived, we too will be united with him in glory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lord, your way of thinking has the form of the Cross, and my way of thinking too needs to take the same form. On the one hand, the Cross is humiliation that nurtures humility within me; on the other, it is salvation, if I allow myself to be touched and moved, shaken from being too certain of myself and freed from my sin. Lord, none of this is easy, but surely, through your Word and also through the Eucharistic nourishment you give us, you can accomplish this change within me. Open wide my arms that my way of thinking may take the shape of the Cross\u2014a Cross that humbles, but also saves me, and saves others with me and through me.\u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7805,"template":"","rizors":[],"class_list":["post-18751","talba-bil-kelma","type-talba-bil-kelma","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v16.4 (Yoast SEO v16.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tax collectors make their way into the kingdom of God before you - Behold<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/behold.mt\/en\/talba-bil-kelma\/tax-collectors-make-their-way-into-the-kingdom-of-god-before-you\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tax collectors make their way into the kingdom of God before you - Behold\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Twenty-Sixth Sunda y in Ordinary Time &#8211; Year A  Collect   O God, who manifest your almighty power above all by pardoning and showing mercy, bestow, we pray, your grace abundantly upon us and make those hastening to attain your promises heirs to the treasures of heaven. 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