Jill Bevilacqua presents readings and reflections to mark the XV Sunday of the year
in Ordinary time. Listen: GospelMt
13:1-23 or 13:1-9 On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by
the sea. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and
sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore. And he spoke to them at
length in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some
seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground,
where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep, and
when the sun rose it was scorched, and it withered for lack of roots. Some
seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it. But some seed fell
on rich soil and produced fruit, a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold. Whoever
has ears ought to hear.”