MY daily reflection and prayer:
Tuedday, October 27, 2015
Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time
Dear my friends,
Here is the Gospel for us today according to Luke 13,18-21
Jesus went on to say, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with? It is like a mustard seed which a man took and threw into his garden: it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air sheltered in its branches.’ Again he said, ‘What shall I compare the kingdom of God with? It is like the yeast a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour till it was leavened all through.’
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.
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THE Gospel today tells us about Jesus Christ who says that the Kingdom of God is like the mustard seed and the leaven. I will focus on the first that the Kingdom of God is similar to a mustard seed. What does this parable communicate to us?
Jesus confronts two diverse moments of the story of the mustard seed. First, the moment when it is sown in the earth. Second, that in which it becomes a tree. Jesus wants to narrate the extraordinary growth of a seed that is thrown in one’s own garden, and to this follows an amazing growth, it becomes a tree.
It is to be put close to the story of God as a story of his Word. It is hidden in human history and it is growing. St. Luke thinks of the Word of God that it is already developing but it has not as yet become a tree. Jesus and the Holy Spirit are supporting this growth of the Word.
In the Perpetual Adoration of the Eucharist while worshipping Jesus Christ we learn to be aware that the Kingdom of God is present in our midst. It grows mysteriously and extends itself in the history of our lives.
Let’s pray: Lord Jesus Christ, the Kingdom is a humble reality, hidden, poor and silent, immersed between the competition and pleasures of life. May we understand from this parable, that we will not be able to get a glimpse of the Kingdom if we do not have an attitude of humble and silent listening now and forever. Amen.
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