I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

We understand that the light bulb does not light up without the source. A car with an empty tank does not move. A student who has not attended school or has not studied can not advance to the next year. Old or dysfunctional things may please the collector, but modern man longs for quality things to serve him as much as possible. We rightly fight the devastation of nature and the destruction of the environment. Let’s say: It’s obvious. In the life of faith, Jesus’ words to the end of the world also apply: “As a branch, it cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither do you if you abide in me” (John 15: 4).

The Old Testament often uses the vineyard and vine symbol. The vineyard is a symbol of the chosen nation (cf. Isa. 5: 1-7; Jer. 2:21; Ezek. 15: 1-8 and others). God is the only owner of the vineyard. God and the nation belong together. In history, God has managed the care of the vineyard and rightly awaits fruit. The nation is obliged to maintain connection with God through its life, loyalty and love for God. Jesus explains God’s friendship as participation in God’s life. In comparison to a vineyard, where it is important and necessary for the branch to be linked to the vine trunk if he wants to bear fruit, Jesus emphasizes our connection with him through the Church. Both the sap of life flows in the vine and the life of God in the Church. By joining and through the Church, the life force is given to all members.

Vine with branches and fruits are a picture of the Church. Jesus points out the importance of the connection with the Eucharist. The Comparison Jesus speaks at the Last Supper, before His death, assuring the disciples that He is always connected with them. He explains the connection through the Eucharist with every known and acceptable thing of nature – in the image of a vine and a branch. “I am the vine, you are the branches.” (John 15: 5) Our connection with him is the guarantee of the spiritual fertility of our Christian life. Jesus emphasizes our spiritual connection. The children of God can only live in uninterrupted communion with God. From him as a divine vine we draw the vital juices of divine life. From Christ’s death and resurrection, we can draw and bear fruit in our lives. “Whoever abides in me and I in it bears much fruit; because without me you can do nothing. ”(John 15: 5) Jesus is the tribe on which a Christian grows as a branch, and only in connection with him through faith, love and hope. Whoever moves away from Christ, the words apply to him: “If someone does not abide in me, they will throw him out as a branch and dry. Then they gather them, throw them into the fire, and burn them ”(John 15: 6). It is the duty of the Christian to remain in connection with Jesus. It is only in connection with him that we have the guarantee that we can bear fruit, that we will obtain eternal life. To live without a connection with Jesus captures the comparison to a torn off branch that wilts and eventually ends in a fire. It is not enough to recognize Jesus, but to live according to his words. “Not everyone who says to me,” Lord, Lord, “will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father.”

The children receive the sap from the vine without their involvement, but then they must bear fruit. Christianity does not only have high ideals of life, but rightly demands its lives according to these principles, above all by acts of love. The infertility of love in the Christian’s spiritual life is a grave fault. Human life is not worthless or meaningless if it is associated with faith and love with Jesus. The union with Jesus gives value to human life even if it seems useless, meaningless, lost, unsuccessful or failed. Consider the different situations one can get into. And in connection with Christ, illness, failure and our disappointments make sense … And vice versa. Life without communion with God, however successful, glorious and the like, is worthless in God’s eyes.

The words “Stay in me and I in you” (John 15: 4) are a call to a life without sin. Only sin separates from Christ and is the greatest enemy of our salvation. Sin destroys God’s life in us. Acts, however valuable, beautiful, done in sin, against God, which do not coincide with the will of God, will not reap. At the hour of death they collect them and throw them into the fire, where they burn. We are aware of our human weaknesses. Jesus’ words about the vine are not only a warning but, above all, an encouragement to remain in contact with Christ. We carry the gift of friendship with God in ourselves as a treasure in fragile containers that we must be careful of. The words are true that nothing dies as easily as God in our heart. John hung up from the pilgrimage cross over the bed. His older brother found him several times praying under the cross. Over time, he began to realize his unfaithfulness to God. The sight of the cross made him feel remorse. Not only did he stop praying over time, but he even folded the cross off the wall. Then his brother asked him why he had done it. John said, “As long as I had a pure heart, I loved God and prayed. When I drove God out of my heart by sin, prayer became difficult or unnecessary and I feel almost hatred of God, so I folded the cross from the wall. ”

Sin in each one’s heart does something like that. The sprig may not dry simultaneously. Gradually. Leaving God