by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
Catholic TV Mass for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 23, 2017, from Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo, from different time and location]
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Catholic TV Mass for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday, July 23, 2017, from the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image adapted from image at Creative Commons Wikimedia Commons Pjposullivan, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loretto_Abbey_chapel_interior,_Toronto.JPG, with additional conditions stated at that link and in the alt-tag here]
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“… ‘The Kingdom of Heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off. * * * ‘… Let them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, “First collect the weeds
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“… ‘”Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My Yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am Meek and Humble of Heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For My Yoke is easy, and My Burden light.’”
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“O Lord my God, how you possess the words of eternal life, where all mortals will find what they desire if they want to seek it! But what a strange thing, my God, that we forget your words in the madness and sickness our evil deeds cause! O my God,…, author of all creation! And what is creation if You,
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“… In this Sunday’s Gospel (Mt 13:1-23), Jesus recounts to the crowd the well-known Parable of the Sower. In a certain way it is an “autobiographical” passage, for it reflects the very experience of Jesus, of his preaching. He identifies himself with the sower who scatters the good seed of the Word of God and notes the different effects it
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Catholic TV Mass for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 16, 2017, from Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo, from different time and location]
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“… [we] think back to the parable of the sower. We know the parable, but we can re-read the words of the Gospel over and over again and still find new light. So the sower comes out to sow. As he sows, some seeds fall on the path, some on rocky ground, some among thorns, some finally on good soil,
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“Today’s readings, like last week’s, ask us to meditate on Israel’s response to God’s Word—and our own. Why do some hear the word of the kingdom, yet fail to accept it as a call to conversion and faith in Jesus? That question underlies today’s Gospel, especially. Again we see, as we did last week, that the kingdom’s mysteries are unfolded
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Catholic TV Mass for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday, July 16, 2017, from the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image adapted from image at Creative Commons Wikimedia Commons Pjposullivan, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loretto_Abbey_chapel_interior,_Toronto.JPG, with additional conditions stated at that link and in the alt-tag here]
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