Homily for Saturday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time

Like most of Jesus’ parables, The Parable of the Sower challenges us to understand the ways of God and human nature and to get us to look deep into ourselves to understand how we must live to grow in the love of God and move closer to His kingdom. The Parable of the Sower invites us to ask ourselves what soil we are like.

 

Perhaps the answer is that we are like all of them. Perhaps there are different areas of our lives where we have opened ourselves to the grace of God more than we have in other areas.

 

Let us pray that we may open ourselves to become like the fertile soil where the seed of God’s grace may take root and flourish and produce great fruit in our lives and in the life of heaven.+