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16 de jun. de 2024 · The seed represents God’s Word (Luke 8:11) and the Sower is the servant of God who shares that Word with others (see 1 Cor 3: 5-9). The human heart is like soil and here we find four kinds of hearts which respond to God’s message in four different ways.
6 de jun. de 2024 · Starting today and the following two Sundays, the Gospel will focus on Jesus’ parables of the Kingdom of Heaven, found in Matthew 13. This week, we’ll hear the Parable of the Sower and Seeds. Next week, we’ll hear the Parable of the Wheat and Tares. The week after that, we’ll hear parables of buried treasure and the pearl of ...
16 de jun. de 2024 · The Sower and the Seeds. The Sower and the Seeds is one of Our Lord’s first parables, and it takes His apostles off guard. Afterward, they ask Jesus privately, “What was that all about?”. And He explains, the Sower is God, offering the grace of conversion and salvation. But some seed lands on a footpath. It takes no root, and eventually ...
12 de jun. de 2024 · Jesus the “creator” of the seed tells a parable about soil, seeds, a farmer and a tiny mustard seed. Every gardener understood. Good seeds in good soil, with water and sun shine will grow. Jesus said: “this is what the kingdom of God is like.” A man scatters seed on the ground.
16 de jun. de 2024 · Sunday, 16th June 2024 at 11.15 AM. At the end of the Second World War, C S Lewis published a book called The Great Divorce. It is a curious thing and in places it is dated, you worry that, over the page, someone is about to use a word like ‘spiffing’. The book describes a dream. It is the story of man who visits hell and heaven.
11 de jun. de 2024 · There is a message in the second parable about welcoming all who need refuge in the branches of the mustard seed—this in a culture known for its exclusivity. Where in our lives do people need comfort and shelter?
16 de jun. de 2024 · These parables compare our situation with respectively that of the humble grain of wheat and the minuscule mustard seed: both bear within themselves miraculous potential, but that potential must ...
