'The seed shall sprout and grow, he knows not how.' Sunday Reflections, 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B



Though We Are Many - Official Hymn of the 32nd International Eucharistic Congress

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Gospel Mark 4:26-14 (Revised Standard Version – Catholic Edition)

Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the ground, and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how. The earth produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come." 

And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

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I've just come back from a Worldwide Marriage Encounter where I was the team priest. In the middle of it I remembered that I had forgot to post the link to Sunday Reflections on this blog.

Comments

  1. I enjoyed the Gospel reading today, but I actually found the second reading more eye raising. Fromn 2 Cor:
    "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil."

    The Protestants say your actions don't affect salvation, only faith alone. Well, that's disproven right there.

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