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Mo NguyenFri, Jul 17 at 2:57 PMSIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A - 19 JULY 2020
WEEDS AMONG WHEAT
REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (Matthew 13: 24-43)
PATIENCE IS BETTER THAN MISPLACED ZEAL
Today’s Gospel presents a further image from agriculture in Palestine. A poisonous weed called darnel affects wheat crops. In the early stages it looks very like the young shoots of wheat. By the time both plants can be distinguished their roots are so entwined as to make tearing out the darnel very injurious to the wheat.
The parable addresses the disciples’ dismay at the continuing prevalence of evil in the world. If, as Jesus teaches, the Kingdom of God has dawned, why has God not intervened to root evil once and for all?
Like the wheat and darnel in the field, good and evil are at present so inextricably co-existent as to make too ruthless an attempt to eradicate the one fatal to a successful harvest of the other. In the harvest time to come, however, God will deal once and for all with evil, before gathering in the ‘wheat’ of the kingdom. The parable also challenges the kind of religious zeal that, filled with moral outrage, wants to go in and root out from the community of believers any considered unworthy to be there.
It can even apply on an individual level. So often a person’s good qualities spring from the same source as their less desirable ones. An irascible person may struggle vigorously for justice; a laid-back character may be a good listener – and so on.
Christianity’s long history of intolerance – the Inquisition, etc. – shows the tragedy and folly of being more zealous to root out evil than to encourage good. The final judgement belongs to God.
Brendan Byrne, SJ
The 'Parable of Weeds among the Wheat':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HLTpb6bH7o
Lúa với cỏ lùng _ Thái Nguyên:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXGNmU1YFQk