producing fruit, a hundred times as much!” And Jesus cried out, “Listen then, if you have ears to hear!” The disciples asked him, “What does this story mean?”
And Jesus answered, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God. But to others it is given in the form of stories, or parables,
so that, seeing, they may not perceive; and hearing, they may not understand. Now, this is the point of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
Those along the wayside are people who hear it; but immediately, the devil comes and takes the word from their minds, for he doesn’t want them to believe and be saved.
Those on the rocky ground are people who receive the word with joy; but they have no root; they believe for a while, and give way in time of trial.
Among the thorns are people who hear the word, but, as they go their way, they are choked by worries, riches, and the pleasures of life;
they bring no fruit to maturity. The good soil, instead, are people who receive the word, and keep it, in a gentle and generous mind, and, persevering patiently,
they bear fruit.
REFLECTION:
A teacher calls the top fifteen students of her class. She instructed each of them to sit beside a slow-learning classmate.
The bright students were tasked to help their slow classmates understand the lesson.
She then said that the grades of the bright students would depend on the progress of the slow-learning ones.
What happened was that the tutor-students assist their classmates even during the break.
They even make follow-ups whether their classmates were studying at home. This sounds unfair.
However, all the fifteen students claimed they become sharper and brighter by teaching their classmates than studying by themselves.
Similarly, a bad or dry soil can become rich when mixed with fertile ones. The fertile ones may even get richer supplementing rocks and sands.
The Gospel then challenge us to enrich those who are in arid conditions. We cannot do that if we are not enriched first.
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