Friday: 16^th Week in Ordinary Time-A

I Reading: Jeremiah 3:14-17: I will give you shepherds after my own heart; all the nations will gather in Jerusalem.

Gospel: Matthew 13:18-23: The man who hears the word and understands it, he is the one who yields a harvest.

The Parable of the Farmer or Sower Explained, 13:18-23

This passage is the interpretation of the Farmer and the Seed (Mt 13:1-9)

1. Describes the Kingdom of Heaven

2. The seed by the path

a. Identity: A person who is hard and close-minded

b. Problem: His heart is not soft; seed is unable to penetrate

c. Result: Satan snatches the seed away

3. The seed on rocky ground

a. Identity: A person who experiences a quick, dramatic conversion

b. Problem: He has little root and is unprepared to face the trails and persecution of life

c. The result: He falls away

5. The seed on good ground

a. Identity: Those who hear and understand the Word

b. Result: They bear fruit, but they bear different percentages

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