LIVE IT TODAY: Saturday, October 25, 2025
You are not beyond My mercy. I see the barren branches and still choose to nurture you. My patience is your invitation—bear fruit in love while there is still time.
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GOD’S DECLARATION TO YOU TODAY
You are not beyond My mercy. I see the barren branches and still choose to nurture you. My patience is your invitation—bear fruit in love while there is still time.
INVOCATION
Come, Holy Spirit! Through the intercession of Our Blessed Mother Mary, open my heart to hear and receive all that You desire for me. Draw me ever more deeply into the Love and Life of the Blessed Trinity!
GOSPEL | Luke 13:1-9
Some people told Jesus about the Galileans
whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices.
He said to them in reply,
“Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way
they were greater sinners than all other Galileans?
By no means!
But I tell you, if you do not repent,
you will all perish as they did!
Or those eighteen people who were killed
when the tower at Siloam fell on them—
do you think they were more guilty
than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem?
By no means!
But I tell you, if you do not repent,
you will all perish as they did!”
And he told them this parable:
“There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard,
and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none,
he said to the gardener,
‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree
but have found none.
So cut it down.
Why should it exhaust the soil?’
He said to him in reply,
‘Sir, leave it for this year also,
and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it;
it may bear fruit in the future.
If not you can cut it down.’”
EVERY DAY QUESTION
What struck you? Challenged you? Inspired you? What questions did it raise?
GOING DEEPER
God’s patience is not permission—it’s mercy.
The crowd came to Jesus expecting commentary on tragedy, perhaps confirmation that those who suffered were worse sinners. But Jesus turns the conversation inward. The real question, He says, is not why did they perish? but why are you still alive? The answer: mercy. The time between your first breath and your last is His invitation to bear fruit.
The parable of the barren fig tree pierces that truth deeper. The Greek word for “repent” (metanoeō) means literally “to change one’s mind”—to turn around. God is not after performance but transformation. He doesn’t want trees that look alive but yield nothing; He wants fruit that reveals His love.
Notice the gentleness of the gardener. While the owner demands justice—“Cut it down!”—the gardener intercedes: “Give it one more year.” That gardener is Christ Himself, who cultivates our hardened soil through grace, pruning what chokes our growth. He does not excuse our barrenness; He tends it. The shovel of suffering, the fertilizer of truth—these are His mercy at work.
Our homes are His orchard. Each of us has a patch of soil—children to nurture, hearts to reconcile, faith to grow. The enemy tempts us to measure by outcomes, but God measures by surrender. The fruit He desires most is repentance—a heart turned back toward Him. Parents, today invite Jesus the Gardener to till the soil of your family’s hearts, to uproot resentment, and to plant seeds of daily conversion. Tonight pray over your family by name, asking for the grace to bear fruit that lasts.
“God’s patience calls forth our repentance and makes us capable of bearing fruit in charity.” (CCC 1432)
LIFE APPLICATION QUESTIONS
Mercy’s Moment: Where in your life might God be inviting you to “one more year” of repentance and renewal?
Fruit of Faith: What specific fruit—patience, forgiveness, courage—is the Lord cultivating in your heart right now?
Family Soil: How can your home become more like the orchard of God’s mercy this week?
FAMILY LIVE IT
Make some time today to gather together and, going around, name one “fruit” you want to grow as a family—such as peace, gratitude, or forgiveness. Discuss one simple way to cultivate it this week.
Then pray over one another by name: Lord Jesus, You are the Gardener of our souls. Nurture [Name] with Your mercy. Pull up the weeds of pride and water [Name]’s heart with Your grace. Let our family bear fruit that reveals Your love to the world.
DAILY PARENT & GRANDPARENT BLESSING
LORD JESUS CHRIST, let Your holy anointing be upon each of our children, grandchildren, and godchildren this day and week, including all to whom they are called in vocation, and all future generations! In Your Sacred Name we claim them for You! We renounce all whispers, lies, and influences of the Enemy! We pray right now that each know Your loving Presence, be forged in virtue, and be flooded with an abundance of Your Holy Spirit to live fully their identity and mission in You now and through all eternity, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother! Amen.
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GOING VERTICAL
“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Just as the vertical beam upholds the horizontal beam of the Cross, so too does undistracted, dedicated daily turning to God as our lifeblood uphold and strengthen every part of life. Start with just three minutes. Wait patiently for the breakthrough beyond the noise. Let Him speak.
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