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Balik-tanaw | No branch can bear fruit by itself
By Br. JONEL DALIMAG, CICM
Fifth Sunday of Easter
When Nature Teaches Us a Lesson
It is said that ‘experience is a good teacher.’ However, it could also be said that ‘nature is a reliable and formidable teacher.’ When nature teaches us something, it uses its laws which have survived the test of time to make a point. Jesus was very much aware of this in his time. That is why, in the Gospel reading today, he uses the imagery of a tree to describe how our relationship with one another and with God should be. Jesus Christ used the image of a tree and a garden to describe his relationship with his Father in heaven whom he described as a gardener: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.” The story and history of our society is likened to a tree. At first, it was just a seedling planted on a fe