Jesus proposes more parables in our Gospel for this week: the field with weeds and wheat growing together, the tiny mustard seed that becomes a resting place for the birds of the sky, and yeast that the woman mixes with the flour.
Let’s focus on the parable of the weeds and the wheat. It manifests the work of God’s creative love in action. Though the kingdom is being preached and “sown” in many hearts, evil and rejection remain. (The human heart is so subtle, so delicate—the attempt to root out the evil may destroy the good.) God knows that the good and evil in the heart often stem from the same disposition. Like the Sower whose field has weeds and wheat together, God is patient: better to give grace time to work its victory.
We are very aware of the struggle within each of us to embrace God’s merciful work. St. Paul, in our second Reading, says that the Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness and intercedes for us “with inexpressible groanings.”
Among the many things that we are learning about God on our journey together as disciples is that God’s greatest power lies in loving care for us and in forgiveness of us. For, “to us has been given the grace to know the mysteries of the kingdom.”
In the words of our opening prayer this Sunday, we pray to be “watchful in keeping God’s commands,” Let us pray to be aware of God’s deepest desires for us “poor children of Eve” as we continue to walk together in faith, hope and love.
-Fr. Len Kraus, S.J.
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