Sunday, July 23, 2017 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 1st Reading: Wisdom 12:13,16-19 2nd Reading: Romans 8:26-27 Gospel: Matthew 13:24-43 or 13:24-30
Jesus told them another parable, “The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and left.
When the plants sprouted and produced grain, the weeds also appeared. Then the servants of the owner came to him and said: ‘Sir, was it not good seed that you sowed in your field? Where did the weeds come from?’
He answered them: ‘This is the work of an enemy.’ They asked him: ‘Do you want us to go and pull up the weeds?’ He told them: ‘No, when you pull up the weeds, you might uproot the wheat with them. Let them just grow together until harvest; and at harvest time I will say to the workers: Pull up the weeds first, tie them in bundles and burn them; then gather the wheat into my barn.” (…)
Then he sent the crowds away and went into the house. And his disciples came to him saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” Jesus answered them, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world; the good seed are the people of the Kingdom; the weeds are those who follow the evil one. The enemy who sows them is the devil; the harvest is the end of time and the workers are the angels.
Just as the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so will it be at the end of time. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom all that is scandalous and all who do evil. And these will be thrown in the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the just will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Fa ther. If you have ears, then hear.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
A woman prays: “Lord, weed out all bad elements of society”. Her daughter-in-law hears this and mutters, “Will she be spared?” A person provoking God to be harsh to bad people is digging his own grave. Who is innocent anyway? In the eyes of God we are all sinners. Even a just man falls 7x a day (see Proverbs 24:16). We fall in thoughts even inside the church. Now think of what sins we are capable of in the busy world. We also fall in words. If words can inflict so much harm, imagine the kind of wounds we are capable of inflicting by our deeds.
No one can pray for the destruction of bad people without ultimately asking for his own death. If one wants a good world he can make one by being better; if one wants a better world he can make one by being the best; if one wants the best world, he can start by building down here the kingdom of the Lord. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM.
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