Wednesday, July 30, 2025

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Monday’s Gospel reading was Matthew 13:31-35. 

‘Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds.
“The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed
that a person took and sowed in a field.
It is the smallest of all the seeds,
yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants.
It becomes a large bush,
and the birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.”

He spoke to them another parable.
“The Kingdom of heaven is like yeast
that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour
until the whole batch was leavened.”

All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables.
He spoke to them only in parables,
to fulfill what had been said through the prophet:

I will open my mouth in parables,
I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world.‘

Ah yes, the mustard seed parable.  It’s very familiar to many.  Because of that fact, we may tend to skim over it and not give it adequate attention.  Sit with it for a moment. 

Now, I would like to share with you Msgr. James Vlaun’s reflection for this Gospel reading.  Click the link below. You may be surprised how it starts. 

Bless others and be blessed.

Shelly  :0)

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#Msgr.JamesVlaun – Homily for 07/28/2025

https://bible.usccb.org/podcasts/video/2025-07-28-reflection-401