June 5 - Monday of the 9th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Tb.1:1-2,2:1-9; Ps.112:1-6; Mk.12:1-12) “The stone rejected by the builders has become the keystone of the structure.” First, Tobit is not a parable; it is not a “story”. A parable begins, as does Jesus’ own in our gospel, with a statement such as, “A man planted a vineyard…” It is always “a man”, a generic man, never a particular man in a particular place at a particular time, as is the case with Tobit. For parables deal expressly with the universal. Though one may derive universal significance from the life of Tobit, it is his life itself which is related to us and not that of an…
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