Friday, July 14, 2023

15th Sunday of Ordinary Time

 

What have you sown and what have you reaped? Mt. 13:1-9



I remember years years ago a summer job was to go and shuck corn.
You could even walk through the corn fields.

Remember the scene in the movie Field of Dreams when Joe Jackson and the Chicago White Sox walked out of the cornfield.

Not anymore!

About the only thing that can fit between the corn stalks now is a rabbit!

That is because through the years farmers have learned how to sow seed so that it produces a hundred, sixty or even thirty fold more.

Farmers have come a long way in their sowing and reaping.
They kept working at it every year trying to find out how to get more out of the land.
And it has born fruit.

Has our Faith born fruit?

Or are we still sowing the seed of our Faith as we did when we were in grade school?

Go to Mass on Sunday once in awhile.
And then we wonder why nothing really happens.

How much spiritual fruit will that bear?

Our soul is a whole field just waiting to bear fruit
A hundred or sixty or thirty fold.

But we have to do the planting and work the field.
With prayer and penance.

Look at the fruit that Mother Teresa and St. Francis produced!
It didn’t just happen.
They put in the time and effort.
The prayer and the penance.
And produced a hundred, sixty and thirty fold.

How much time and effort do we put into our spiritual life
And how much fruit do we bear?

It all depends on our hearts.
Are they rocky and nothing gets through?
Are they shallow and nothing goes too deep?
Or are they filled with the thorns of this world
that choke off anything that might bear spiritual fruit.

We have fields all around us bearing fruit
A hundred, sixty or thirtyfold.
If only we could do the same!

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