SỐNG VÀ CHIA SẺ LC -BRENDAN- 15TH SUNDAY-A

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    Mo Nguyen
     
    Fri, Jul 10 at 4:02 PM
     
     
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              FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A - 12 JULY 2020

                        REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL

                                    (Matthew 13: 1-13)

                           AGAINST BEING DISCOURAGED

     Adopting the shorter form of today’s Gospel, let us concentrate on the riches contained in the parable of the Sower taken simply by itself.

    Jesus probably told the parable to counter discouragement among his disciples stemming from the poor response his message was receiving from many quarters. So, taking a familiar image from agricultural practice of his day, Jesus pointed to the very casual way in which those going out to sow a crop scattered the seed about. By no means all of it landed in good soil. Quite a bit could land in the three situations – on the path, on rocky ground, among thorns – resulting in the loss described.

     

    Isn’t this all rather wasteful? Not at all! The sower knows that each seed that falls on good soil will bear a yield many times in excess of itself: a hundredfold, sixth or thirty. This abundance so vastly outweighs the losses that he can afford to be casual and wild.

    Like the sower, Jesus scatters his message far and wide. In the case of many who hear him the word suffers the fate of the seed that is lost. But when it really strikes home and finds a welcome, the corresponding ‘yield’ – hundredfold, sixty, thirty – more than compensates for all the loss.

    In the face of opposition and indifference, Jesus does not lose confidence. When the word finds a generous response in the human heart, there is no limit to the riches of God’s love and grace that can be channelled through such persons into the world.

     

    Brendan Byrne, SJ

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