John 15:2 (WEB)
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Catechism · 2
The Liturgy - Work of the Holy Trinity
“In every liturgical action the Holy Spirit is sent in order to bring us into communion with Christ and so to form his Body. the Holy Spirit is like the sap of the Father's vine which bears fruit on its branches.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 15:1-17; Gal 5:22.
The Church in God's Plan
“Yet the true vine is Christ who gives life and fruitfulness to the branches, that is, to us, who through the Church remain in Christ, without whom we can do nothing.” — Catechism footnote: LG 6; Cf. 1 Cor 39; Rom 11:13-26; Mt 21:32-43 and parallels; Isa 51-7; Jn 15:1-5.
Fathers and councils · 17
Augustine of Hippo
“I have not seen any one who is wise, when “purging” anything cast away the good.” — editor's note: John xv. 2.
Read the whole comment“Moreover it behoved that this same vine should be pruned in accordance with the Lord’s repeated predictions, and that the unfruitful twigs should be cut out of it, by which heresies and schisms were occasioned in various localities, under the name of Christ, on the…” — editor's note: John xv. 2
Read the whole comment“But if under the attention of so great a hand we will be barren, and for good fruit bring forth thorns, I am loth to say what follows.” — editor's note: See John xv. 2 and 6.
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Gregory the Great
“Hence the Truth in person says, My Father is the husbandman, and every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away; but every branch that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit (John xv. 1, 2).” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“He invites us to produce fruits in abundance, for fear lest our sterility should condemn us to the fire.” — editor's note: cf. S. John xv. 1-6.
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Through this assumption we are in Him, as the branches in the vinestock; and unless He had become the Vine, we could have borne no good fruit.” — editor's note: St. John xv. 1, 2.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Then He adds, “Every branch in me that beareth not fruit He taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit He pruneth, that it may bring forth more fruit.”” — editor's note: John xv. 1, 2.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
He rises in haste to perform the sacrament of His final passion in the flesh, (such is His desire to fulfil His Father’s commandment:) and therefore takes occasion to unfold the mystery of His assumption of His…
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He says this as being the Head of the Church, of which we are the members, the Man Christ Jesus; for the vine and the branches are of the same nature. When He says, I am the true vine, He does not mean really a vine;…
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But He wholly separates this humiliation in the flesh from the form of the Paternal Majesty, by setting forth the Father as the diligent Husbandman of this vine: And My Father is the Husbandman.
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For we cultivate God, and God cultivates us. But our culture of God does not make Him better: our culture is that of adoration, not of ploughing: His culture of us makes us better. His culture consists in extirpating…
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And forasmuch as Christ was sufficient for Himself, but His disciples needed the help of the Husbandman, of the vine He says nothing, but adds concerning the branches, Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit, He…
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The useless and deceitful branches He cuts down for burning.
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And inasmuch as even the best of men require the work of the husbandman, He adds, And every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. He alludes here to the tribulations and trials…
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And who is there in this world so clean, that he cannot be more and more changed? Here, if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. (1 John 1:8) He cleanseth then the clean, i. e. the fruitful, that the…
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Ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you, i. e. ye have been enlightened by My doctrine, and been delivered from Jewish error.
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
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Cited together in Confessions I.7.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Confessions I.7.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 15:1–3 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 75.