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Matthew 13:24-43 for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Inside each of us are
seeds and weeds of sin.
However, God tells us,
the Church tells us and our faith tells us that in baptism God with his own
almighty hand and eternal Spirit has planted within each of us the seeds of
righteousness, holiness and much more.
By baptism and the Holy
Spirit, God has planted his own Son within us and has planted us in his Son.
God has planted deep within
our being his own power, divinity, light, truth, life and glory.
Each of us is a field of
God.
Each of us an offspring
of our heavenly Father.
We may trust that God
himself will dig and plant, water us and weed out the causes of sin, whether
now or in a future purgation.
Here at Mass, at this
moment, we are inside God’s house where right now God is busy at work.
The Greek word liturgy refers to WORK for PEOPLE.
Liturgy is God’s work
for his people.
Here in the Eucharistic Liturgy,
God is at work planting and gathering among his sons and daughters.
Its words come from
parts of an ancient writing [the Didache] from less than one hundred years
after the Son of God fell like a grain of wheat into the earth, died and then
sprouted from the earth in his everlasting resurrection.
The hymn voices a
rightful sense of hope and confidence that we dare to call our own, as well as a
sense of thankfulness that can enliven our faith.
Father, we thank thee who hast planted
Thy holy Name within our hearts.
Knowledge and faith and life
immortal
Jesus thy Son to us imparts.
Thou, Lord, didst make all for thy
pleasure,
Didst give man food for all his
days.
Giving in Christ the Bread eternal,
Thine is the power, be thine the
praise.
Watch o’er thy Church, O Lord, in
mercy,
Save it from evil, guard it still,
Perfect it in thy love, unite it,
Cleansed and conformed unto thy
will.
As grain, once scattered on the
hillsides,
Was in this broken bread made one,
So from all lands thy Church be
gathered
Into thy kingdom by thy Son.
Turn. Love. Repeat.
