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Today's Gospel
Called to Sow. Called to Receive!
5 min
Gospel
Lk 8:4-15
And when a great crowd came together and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: “A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured it. And some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew with it and choked it. And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold.” As he said this, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved. And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy; but these have no root, they believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away. And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. And as for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Readings are from Dynamic Catholic’s New Testament Bible: RSV Catholic Edition
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Transcript
Called to Sow. Called to Receive!
Love this gospel. This is the sower, the gospel of the sower. What I love about the sower is he wakes up in the morning, and he goes out and he sows his seed abundantly and generously, and that's God. A Dynamic Catholic, I'm always talking to the team here and to donors and benefactors and friends. Like we are sent out into the world to sow abundantly, to sow generously.
Very often, people want to say, "Well, let's take this one seed and surgically implant it into this piece of rich ground." And meanwhile, thousands, millions, hundreds of millions, billions of people starving for the faith. So the invitation is to wake up in the morning and go out, and just so abundantly and generously. I know each day we're looking for a word or phrase or an idea that the Holy Spirit uses to capture our attention. That's mine today. And maybe he gave you something completely different. And if so, fantastic. That is how amazing our God is. Always at work in our hearts if we let Him. And that's the piece today's gospel is really about, if we let Him. Because we are on both sides of the sowing. Yes, we're called to wake up in the morning and go out and sow abundantly and generously. But we're also called to receive the seed of God, the Word of God, and allow God to work in our hearts. And if we let Him, amazing things will happen. If we let Him. God bless you, have a great day, and remember, Be Bold, Be Catholic.
