CAN YOU BE PATIENT EVEN TOWARDS YOUR ENEMY? HOMILY FOR SATURDAY OF THE 16TH WEEK IN THE ORDINARY TIME
CAN YOU BE PATIENT EVEN TOWARDS YOUR ENEMY? PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND THE WEEDS Jeremiah 7:1-11; Mathew 13:24-30 Dearest brothers and sisters in Christ, in the Gospel narrative, we hear the parable of the weeds. A parable in which the kingdom of God is compared to someone who sowed good seeds in the field but while asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away (Mt 13:24-25). In the parallel, the sower is the Son of Man, the field is the world and the good seed are the children of God, the weeds are the children of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil (Mt 13:37-39). Firstly, the parable speaks to us about the need for us to be vigilant and watchful in all we do, lest the evil one invades the world, the church, our hearts and consciences and sows evil seeds of deceit, dishonesty and falsehood. These like the weeds commence to choke our faith and our consciousness and begin to barricade our sound mind and intellect on morality. To b...